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Tweets
Ten months after losing her Senate race to Susan Collins, Sara Gideon is still hoarding $10 million of unused campaign cash, and has raked in over $500,000 from selling fundraising email lists, campaign finance reports reveal https://t.co/eZ00de2sYn
checking out new Fortnite season & keeping tabs on CA recall results. she says come hang or else
https://t.co/7iABVWY3g3 https://t.co/mqyvwskCUp
my life is over now; i’ve been facebooked. https://t.co/HBhYhoA9gt
@SenatorIvy @kenklippenstein he’s a good kid, but my other two listen better
@kenklippenstein Instead of swollen balls, we should be talking about the swollen budget deficit!
Reserving judgment on #thedress until I see how hard AOC fights in the end for a good reconciliation bill including taxing the rich.
Absolutely incredible: Census says poverty rate **fell** in 2020 ***during one of the worst labor market shocks in US history***, due to the combo of stimulus checks/federal relief that reached millions both in and outside the workforce. Reflects limits of jobs to reduce poverty. https://t.co/rgOKZo50qi
*gets hit in head w/2x4 & forgets everything about the post-9/11 persecution of Muslims* How could this possibly happen?Who could have predicted this? I just wanted a good old restorative imperial competition, how was I to know institutions were going to do institutional racisms? https://t.co/lrHu4fxeRa
NEW: Biden ally @djrothkopf and his firm TRG Advisory have signed a new contract with the United Arab Emirates. It's a three year deal that will end up making the consulting firm at least $1.6 million. That's $540,000 each year from 2021 into 2024.
https://t.co/kOwk1iyA5q
Nicki Minaj ft Tucker Carlson - swollen balls and ass marbles
To this point Bernie & the left flank in congress have done the right thing and said $3.5 trillion or go fuck yourself
This guy gets paid to give political takes. We live in an anti-meritocracy https://t.co/hZAZdeiD92
If you don't want politics to be dominated by culture war topics that disadvantage Democrats in tough races, then you can't fumble the ball when it comes to advancing popular economic ideas.
Strong, thoughtful case for ousting Greg Abbott from Dan Crenshaw https://t.co/96v88aCQGB
Bad news guys. They just told they're having the Met Gala all over again. Everybody get your takes out we have to talk about again all night
Some personal news: I’m thrilled to be joining the @nysfocus team! https://t.co/daS2zEbscB
an enormous thank you to all my WGAE pals who voted for the solidarity slate and welcome to all the new council members, this is absolutely a union that fights for *all* its members and I can't wait to get to work https://t.co/QNDtUnFapN
New level of brain worms unlocked here. Empirically and clearly false claim the working class doesn’t care about taxing the wealthy, psychobabble about PMC neurosis informing left populist slogans; a lazy variation of stale rightwing line “lefties are just jealous of winners” https://t.co/Rc7SsgQySl
@kenklippenstein I've chosen a similar but darker course: Ron Fournier of the Dress Discourse, trying to find a reasonable common ground. A position that, by definition, requires me to care a great deal about it and waste way too much time thinking about it.
Inbox: @AOC is introducing a bill to extend the pandemic unemployment benefits that just expired https://t.co/cRwGYTSbXj
INVESTIGATION: The three House Dems threatening to kill their party's drug pricing legislation have raked in $1.8 MILLION from pharma donors.
One of them is the House's #1 recipient of pharma cash.
Another's top aide is now lobbying for drugmakers. https://t.co/DpuDst42JH
i think the bar for granting anonymity has sunk too low in labor reporting. makes it really challenging to evaluate claims, and readers deserve to know it's something used only when strictly necessary https://t.co/dkmcc8p3Ue
@pbump @chrislhayes @nycsouthpaw omfg chris at least use spoiler tags
When God created Adam, it was the first recorded instance of making up a guy to get mad at
MEN if your bae gets new pants with very wide bottoms do NOT call them her new Lori Lightfoot pants you WILL get yelled at
i love political cartoons that focus on The Issues. https://t.co/WAG7R37PMt
"wow this blowed up. follow me" - me trying to evacuate people out of Pompeii
Fruits of peace! UAE puts human rights defenders who oppose normalization with Israel on its terror list
https://t.co/vONMtgZYbC
telling a household headed by two public school teachers it's time for them to redistribute their wealth
case in point: willing to bet her rhetoric here was probably more effective than if she had chose to read from the little red book or whatever https://t.co/CM6eTY8CpI
people forget that the infamous "mama bear" quote was said while AOC was on The View trying to convince a specific demographic that they could trust her endorsement of Bernie Sanders for president. the terminally online would do well to realize not everything is meant for them https://t.co/KbXvhcZoMy
SCOOP: The Biden admin says it supports a Covid vaccine waiver, but I obtained a summary of a September 14 WTO meeting that shows the U.S. is dragging its feet & declining to support the India-South Africa vaccine waiver proposal as it stands. My latest. https://t.co/x1qdRi2GiH
Why is it every few years the whole internet gets in a fight about a dress
Updated story says 22 police officers died of Covid last week nationwide.
"I do think the reluctance to get vaccinated has contributed," said New Jersey's Police Superintendent Pat Callahan. "I don't think I could land on any other conclusion there."
https://t.co/QK1MXiepVE
22 New Jersey police officers died in a week. One week. That's a mass murder and their fellow officers are on the shooters side. https://t.co/fMF8UB4RDB
@kenklippenstein What about FOIA lawyers? Hear they are really nice.
@mwellshalophile @MsEntropy @kenklippenstein You’re welcome. He’s liked this tweet, so I’ll step away and let you two connect directly.
If for some reason Ken isn’t able to take this on, I’m sure he can help connect you with others, but, if not, feel free to touch base and I’ll DM some other journo contacts on your behalf.
@mwellshalophile @MsEntropy If a journalist is what you’re looking for, this might be of interest to @kenklippenstein.
Why did @RepRichardNeal leave out such an important change that would help to ensure that rich people pay their taxes? https://t.co/NFKRooSchx
Tucker is trying to obtain the BOFA file https://t.co/dBvNXOrs2j
@Fiorella_im @kenklippenstein “Likely over-compensation” is probably how you got noticed for swerving too much while driving intoxicated numerous times
@kenklippenstein There are people in prison for marijuana
absolutely begging somebody to leak Biden's briefing notes on this to @kenklippenstein. . https://t.co/2wHNab1GHF
@kenklippenstein @daveweigel New flag looks pretty good. https://t.co/HBmtrLu8oU
FOIA office when they’re responding to requests for mass surveillance systems https://t.co/mQbzjLD3tT
Know who makes GREAT organizers? PTA moms and church ladies. I realize that my kind, we are not cool, we think punny Marx t-shirts are fun, we get excited about logos, we sometimes break your airtables, but my God we can work the phones like nothing you’ve ever seen.
@davehill77 they turned my cousin’s friend’s brother’s testicles into grapefruits
As predicted, people unanimously think that Excellent > Great > Very Good. So it's mind-boggling that @Photoshop changed the exporter settings from an intuitive 0-100% to this bizarre, child-like ranking of quality that ranks "Great" as being better than "Excellent." https://t.co/vqdKaLRP5u
@kenklippenstein Natural flow of events: Celeb tweets some bs - Public dunks mercilessly - Fox gets mad - Sovereign nation responds - Ted Cruz ruins it. Sunrise, sunset.
@daveweigel Know what else is swollen? My heart with pride for the greatest country on earth
Gonna suck when Ted Cruz does a swollen balls tweet and the joke’s dead instantly
RT @jamespmcleod: absolutely begging somebody to leak Biden's briefing notes on this to @kenklippenstein. .
RT @AliceOllstein: BREAKING: 3 centrist Democrats just tanked the party's signature drug price negotiation bill after a marathon 3-day mark…
RT @aaronbateman22: animals as intelligence assets: 1965 CIA memo discussing attaching sensors to dolphins to collect intelligence on Sovie…
RT @BCAppelbaum: Why did @RepRichardNeal leave out such an important change that would help to ensure that rich people pay their taxes?
RT @sarahlazare: SCOOP: The Biden admin says it supports a Covid vaccine waiver, but I obtained a summary of a September 14 WTO meeting tha…
RT @attackerman: *gets hit in head w/2x4 & forgets everything about the post-9/11 persecution of Muslims* How could this possibly happen?Wh…
RT @LaraFriedmanDC: Fruits of peace! UAE puts human rights defenders who oppose normalization with Israel on its terror list
https://t.co/…
RT @davidsirota: INVESTIGATION: The three House Dems threatening to kill their party's drug pricing legislation have raked in $1.8 MILLION…
RT @mattduss: It’s kind of a problem that the leading foreign policy columnists for both of the US’s major papers function as PR agents for…
RT @aidachavez: Inbox: @AOC is introducing a bill to extend the pandemic unemployment benefits that just expired https://t.co/cRwGYTSbXj
RT @KweenInYeIIow: god help us https://t.co/yp6N1PcHYm
RT @PostinMonkey: When God created Adam, it was the first recorded instance of making up a guy to get mad at
@PureCommie No that would be saying both sides make good points
RT @schwartzbCNBC: NEW: Biden ally @djrothkopf and his firm TRG Advisory have signed a new contract with the United Arab Emirates. It's a t…
RT @samfbiddle: Sources told us in 2019 that one the Americans charged today, Marc Baier, was present at a discussion re: hacking The Inter…
RT @JakeLaperruque: FOIA office when they’re responding to requests for mass surveillance systems https://t.co/mQbzjLD3tT
Three former US intelligence officials who went to work as mercenary hackers for the UAE now face federal charges of conspiring to break hacking laws
https://t.co/KGa7kZOJ0m
@robsatloff @WashInstitute @MohamedBinZayed https://t.co/QhyVYH3JB8
RT @nathanTbernard: Ten months after losing her Senate race to Susan Collins, Sara Gideon is still hoarding $10 million of unused campaign…
RT @JStein_WaPo: Absolutely incredible: Census says poverty rate **fell** in 2020 ***during one of the worst labor market shocks in US hist…
@kenklippenstein society doesn't reward whistle blowing (quite the opposite) so they just do it for the love of the game
@Fiorella_im @kenklippenstein You got shat on smooth brain 😂😂
@robsatloff @WashInstitute @MohamedBinZayed Serious question: How do you guys sleep at night?
@kenklippenstein @daveweigel everything’s bigger in Texas, even the balls! wait where’s everyone going
Sources told us in 2019 that one the Americans charged today, Marc Baier, was present at a discussion re: hacking The Intercept after @JennaMC_Laugh first wrote about DarkMatter in 2016 https://t.co/Rn8274Lfzc https://t.co/95MQoaSpRe
You know any mention of genitals, especially near September 11… that man is ON it https://t.co/t7KXUs9u79
@kenklippenstein @PureCommie "no sides make good points" should be an available political option more often tbqh
@kenklippenstein This is the best take to have. https://t.co/gDJdXQTRnM
lmao what garbage people are these https://t.co/Tt9TnmGq2R
Like, say, creating a new program that sends every family $250-300 per kid per month? Like that? Just because nobody talks about it on their youtube show doesn't mean it isn't happening https://t.co/aDNS06qAmg
If Democrats actually do pass $2.9 trillion in new taxes on the rich then yes, that dress was good. This feels simple.
Well yes but Pelosi said publicly on January 8th she had had this conversation https://t.co/kOaq1JkEoA
Scarcely a week goes by that I don't talk to someone whose life was upended by being placed on some FBI/DHS database without being charged with a crime and then having to deal with traumatic effects of that indefinitely. Where's the accountability or due process for any of this.
One of the greatest routines from one of the funniest people who’s ever lived. https://t.co/OpTQgw5EE1
Now that this person has died, it's time to talk about all of the politically incorrect things he did. This has nothing to do with the cocktail of seventeen different psychiatric medications I'm on.
If you'd have told me 10 years ago that I would have to put labels on all the white men profiles so I can prove that I'm not giving job opportunities to "too many" of them... https://t.co/3YdRAPOrSP
This seems to be setting a precedent — a bad one — for dealing with American intel operatives who go to work as hackers for foreign governments. Wonder what embarrassing info the US government is trying to hide by entering this sweetheart deal https://t.co/EjtvIfARwr
Jesus there’s a guy at my ballot drop off location in the Mission sticking his phone in the face of the volunteers, asking them to admit that they are “state actors” for an illegitimate election
FEC voted unanimously -- 6 to 0 -- to dismiss the complaint that Twitter violated campaign finance laws by blocking access to New York Post's Hunter Biden laptop story https://t.co/Erhf9XuG3O
Mark Baier, I’ve been told by sources, was so pissed that we identified him in this story, that he explored a retaliation hack on me and the Intercept. Today Baier admitted in federal court he conspired to illegally export and use hacking tools https://t.co/4IQBIkqeNG
We were the first to identify Cyberpoint back in 2015 for exporting illicit hacking tools to the UAE. The same folks who created DarkMatter, the firm that admitted to criminal use of hacking tools in court today. https://t.co/UikaoigwJ0
Masks do a great job of making people anonymous, and we’ve quickly adopted them for the help (eg, waiters, store clerks). People can pretend there are no class implications to this if they want. https://t.co/KDinNEpK1y
The problem with the corporate reporting on antifa rioting in Portland is that the writers often are supporters of that violence. Their bias prevents them from presenting the news honestly to the public in the best of times. At worse, they endorse or partake in the violence. https://t.co/eghX002MZU
6. I can see no way to fix Instagram for minors. Any platform that encourages children to upload photos of themselves, to be rated and commented on by strangers, is likely to harm many kids. I wish I could raise my daughter in a world that had no such platforms.
The company that sold the iOS zero-day to the UAE spy operation was Accuvant, a government contractor that specialized in exploit development. And the sale was not exclusive, according to @HowellONeill.
https://t.co/xIuIYACu7a https://t.co/bboeBQwBak
there is major demand for workers in skilled trades and no one is telling disaffected young men that they can find fulfilling, well paying work with job security because of the stigma of not following in your managerial class parents footsteps. https://t.co/EulT4omZQF
Ninety percent of political media feels like just a partisan sideshow. Every fact, every news event, every horrible shooting, every scandal, every argument is seen through a pathetic lens of "is this person problematic" or "does this help or hurt my team/party"
Nicki Minaj > partisan losers who see the whole world through good team bad team black and white https://t.co/cOrr43PYdb
RT @NICKIMINAJ: Right. I can’t speak to, agree with, even look at someone from a particular political party. Ppl aren’t human any more. If…
The Haitian American Caucus is lobbying against this law, arguing that it harms "vulnerable communities" https://t.co/RprX5PH3l2 The sponsor of Haitian American Caucus TV this year? DoorDash https://t.co/Emehbq7eOK
New York has a new law that forces delivery companies like DoorDash to share data with local restaurants, which have long argued Silicon Valley gig companies exploit their role as a third party. https://t.co/LjntKzc4Pm
Intelligence contract funneled to pro-war think tank establishment https://t.co/1GcSinVGfo
RT @nausjcaa: This fight has been all but forgotten as the WTO continues to withhold the vaccine recipe globally
RT @bobjherman: New U.S. gov't deal pays Regeneron $2.94 billion for 1.4 million doses ($2,100/dose) of its COVID-19 treatment, which was p…
RT @ChuckRossDC: This seems to be setting a precedent — a bad one — for dealing with American intel operatives who go to work as hackers fo…
epic anti-imperialism moment! https://t.co/yz0vwMX8vC
the iPhone 13 is coming out. yeah, for the cost of one trip to Whole Foods, you can take a selfie! https://t.co/subq8k9juN
PORTLAND: @Yogi_Paliwal and I are doing a one night only stand up show this Thursday Sept 16th at the Siren theater. We’ll also be at the Jewelbox theater in Seattle Sept 17th/18th. Ticket links in the reply below. https://t.co/ZEogqlQ5G6
@ByYourLogic i want to share seats with gorka while he cleans a sig MPX on his drop down tray
@ByYourLogic when covid’s over they need to add vaping areas past security. texas has it for smokers and it would rule if it didn’t smell like shit
if i got a call from the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff saying "I want to assure you that the american government is stable and everything is going to be okay, we are not going to attack or conduct any kinetic operations against you" i'd assume we were about to be attacked
Here’s the deal. If you are ever gonna be a witness in anything or if you’re a private detective or a Judge in an important case—don’t get into a prop plane, or a helicopter, or anything like that. Terrible idea https://t.co/itHMNVOhRI
a brief word of encouragement from the funniest guy on the planet meant so much to me 7 years ago. thank you norm https://t.co/KU6gnjmM3B
Yes 2021 when jack asses hang on to my every tweet but can’t decipher sarcasm & humor, and can’t read. Go away dumbo https://t.co/U95TwMEAM9
I cannot fathom being anything other than completely unwavering in your support for universal, socialized medicine, free at point of use. It's difficult to imagine a more basic or rudimentary moral commitment. https://t.co/9BxCfXVuXS
Norm MacDonald once said "bad comedians say things to make people clap, not laugh" and I think about it all the time https://t.co/IerO51Nv2e
We all know, intuitively and biologically, that “zero Covid” is impossible. But major institutions in the United States continue to react like it’s the goal, even post-vaccination. We’ve hitched our wagon to cases for so long, and we just can’t let go.
Really cool news. Some kid at my daughter’s school has covid symptoms so her mom took her to some holistic medicine place and pricked her finger, looked at her blood and said she’s negative and the school was cool with that
the meme wars have begun in the world of outlaw motorcycle gangs. Pagans started allowing corrections officers in and are allowing people to patch in for $500. the Hells Angels have hit back by discovering impact font. https://t.co/MLVBvA2f2A
BREAKING NEWS: @AOC, @RashidaTlaib and @MarkPocan are leading a renewed effort to prohibit the delivery of US-made bombs to Israel--the latest example of how Israel’s May assault on Gaza spurred progressives to challenge US arms sales to Israel. https://t.co/1BM7RJkgUt
asshole is ruining our workplace’s OSHA compliance https://t.co/alX2ygP7Rp
Lot of these one might feel conflicted about the schadenfreude but this one is a freebie https://t.co/J8t0jCVOhZ
this is the funniest shit ever to me for some reason https://t.co/QK48Bf2wp6
@ByYourLogic THANK YOU. How is my vape pen bothering the plane?
I learned a lot about comedy from Norm Macdonald. His eccentric word choice when other people were flattening the language. His slow burn when other people valued speed. His sometimes strange and self-sabotaging insistence on integrity. https://t.co/DW696zNIdn
*Eric Andre voice* was it pegging the patriarchy when your great-grandfather invented the Black and Tans
if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you https://t.co/HipZ9Opjw8
Retweet this if Keemstar should have to take a bath with me!!! https://t.co/7b0FwIxpZv
@ByYourLogic If you need glasses, you already lost 😹👉💯👈👻👍❤️🔥
@ByYourLogic Gavin Newsom truly understands intersectional solutions to our problems. Ever wonder how to address LA’s homeless crisis, prison overcrowding, a lack of plasma and blood donations, and blighted brownfield sites in poor neighborhoods through one innovative program? Stay tuned!
the mass politics of Met Gala couture!
I know it's dumb to obsess over it but this is something unknown to human history before this decade. Something only a thoroughly brahminized, NGOified Left could even imagine, never mind execute https://t.co/8h06JTFBPr
hey man every time we’d go out to this club you’d mention to the girls you were nicki minaj’s cousin like, non-stop. good line. tonight you’re just staring into the corner silent. you okay man? oh hey finally getting cell signal here,
@ByYourLogic i happen to think that that damn Yankee stadium is the most evil building ever made! you don't get dubbed "the evil empire" for nothing
he was my friend. He said it right here https://t.co/x01QV8LWep
@ByYourLogic They should have a smoking area like the ATL airport except for weed
when you’re on a plane and they have the pilot try to sell you the airline’s shitty credit card over the PA it makes me see red. if they can do that you should be allowed to smoke/vape/dip
this is such a classic example of “breaking the fourth wall” https://t.co/dffLZ64MjS
It’s dumb to get mad at a tweet because there’s probably a worse one you haven’t seen yet. Save your energy
You have $10 to make the ultimate celebrity dream team couple who ya got?
$5 Johnny Depp
$5 Amber Heard
$4
@coaIburner ONce a guy turns into a talks about how he loves eating psusy all the time guy hes about 6 months away from getting arrested
If there's anything I love, it's being talked to like I'm a fucking baby by someone that claims to be accountable to a movement far greater than herself. https://t.co/EAVB5o81XT
@ByYourLogic Despite their extensive renovations the Despair Stench still hangs in the air of the Bradley Terminal.
Keemstar seems to me like an endangered animal. There aren’t really guys like him anymore. Last of a dying breed. Between my last retweet and his post about drinking 3 sips of beer to ward of a panic attack I think he might be either completely and totally brain dead or a genius.
defending a politician against the visceral disgust of regular people due to their hypocrisy and decadence is extremely cringe. be normal and use your eyes. https://t.co/CzuiCot5PY
how norm spent his 54th birthday... shitting on bret easton ellis https://t.co/V7Ugk4qb7Z
living in the uk, i still remember the first time i found norm macdonald and did the youtube deep dive. coming home from my old job to watch his video podcast religiously. the sheer amount of jokes and bits that still get brought up. absolutely loved the guy rip
california is not one of the rectangle states. stop saying it is, because it’s not. it’s one of those weird-shaped ones by the coast
@DenseHomo @robinhatch @Lioniseating @ByYourLogic @sampsbydon @ZeroSuitCamus He’s got your number
@Lioniseating @ByYourLogic @sampsbydon @DenseHomo @ZeroSuitCamus https://t.co/rncGpLeN4M
@bugposting @ByYourLogic @Lioniseating she understood the assignment!!
The international implications this has… https://t.co/sGBcSqvCRm
total bullshit man…I made roast chicken and veggies w pan gravy in individual bread bowls!!!! and the kids got home and demanded cheeseburger sliders and their dad supported them! and I ended up making two dinners :| https://t.co/EtAfmqvZ3k
now wait a minute https://t.co/4oa3vJ6NXm https://t.co/D8G0PaN93y
@bugposting @ByYourLogic @Lioniseating He’s being misrepresented!
@ByYourLogic My prescription is so bad they didnt invent contacts for my eyes until I was 14 and by that time I had spent 4 years not wearing my glasses bc of bullying, meaning my eyes had adjusted and my eye muscles were too strong and automatically closed when my finger got close w the lens
I would never go anywhere. I can’t! I’m walled into my “friend’s” wine cellar! HELP!!! https://t.co/yrkL3Be3up
@robinhatch @Lioniseating @ByYourLogic @sampsbydon @DenseHomo whoa! https://t.co/VzZQLm5p4L
@Lioniseating @ByYourLogic @sampsbydon @DenseHomo https://t.co/dSHW6Yq6nx
Ugh almost did a serious reply to something https://t.co/kXrhiHULg6
fuck Denver Airport. not because of the NWO. the layout is just stupid
Comedy is hard and the majority of it is mediocre and bad, but Norm always reminded you of how good it could be. RIP to a legend this is devastating.
Wonder what the intimidation they’re standing up against here has consisted of. I can make some guesses https://t.co/NXHniyC9q2
@ByYourLogic Also it’s like 30 minutes away from everything. Actually I’m driving there right now and I’ll buy you a drink outside the terminal, be there in 30 minutes.
if I mollywop someone in the QT’s and then delete it a few hours later it’s because I got really high later that day and was like “damn I need to stop spreading negative energy before it comes back to me”
short guys wouldn't have this problem if they simply unlocked the latino mindset https://t.co/yNEAgOBpWE
What’s happening in colleges and universities is extremely concerning. These students are all vaccinated, and yet they’re not allowed to socialize. What’s the endgame here? What are we doing? https://t.co/TJKlnhHMZk
@benschwartz_ @ByYourLogic This is Burbank to me https://t.co/6TkVMZDlpk
This popped up in my photos from 2 years ago lol https://t.co/lHl9536v9B
@bugposting @ByYourLogic @Lioniseating Starting a conversation.
@ByYourLogic the burbank airport is adorable. its mom and pop
I ordered the AOC meal at mcdonalds and they just handed me a bag with 15 lukewarm pickles inside of it.
@ByYourLogic Typical Crack Sparrow AKA Grindelfraud stan. If he really cared, he'd be doing Marvel movies to pay for therapy instead of suing her so he can get drunk at the Viper Room. Truth Heards!
Even if one agrees that it was transphobic, IMO it's not fair to cite a joke he made in 1996 & not mention that in recent years he cut jokes from his act after talking to trans people bc he feared he might be causing them harm, or his explicit statements in favor of trans rights. https://t.co/aRTNmEfs92 https://t.co/z0aeON0frZ
Scamber TURD 📉 #JohnnyDeppsWarrior https://t.co/Cf7bnuQC86
YouTube constantly recommends me stuff like this now. It's always "news" shows I've never heard of doing vids with insane titles that also somehow get a million views in a week. I want to know who's watching this https://t.co/2rZn7NT4fV
im sure there are already too many posts about norm macdonald but he was one of the funniest people on the planet imo and i wish he had lived to be 100
i pray to god they let eminem do a song called "Venom 2" for the new one
@ByYourLogic I love taking a good look at an Amelia Earhart statue before I get on a plane.
@ByYourLogic they don’t want you to know that slanting your eye in the offensive “asian” manner actually makes you see better
mfw i decided to stop paying for an apple developer membership a few years ago https://t.co/Q86x1hdjBl
Kathleen Kennedy forces British brunette white woman to be the protagonist in a soft reboot for a classic franchise featuring Harrison Ford https://t.co/eNoZqCy9yd https://t.co/yv3vo12r6A
yesterday i went to starbucks, a guy spilled his coffee on me, then looked at me, and said “nice one, r*tard” lmaoooooo
do not take any form of transportation 😔😔 even your own two feet ! 💀🙏 https://t.co/tTNCMVquIb https://t.co/LbSeTbeJN7
How long do you think she will keep at this https://t.co/P01ciDwbhh
@ByYourLogic not wearing my contacts bc ive seen enuogh haha
@ByYourLogic It's so bad right now because they're doing a ton of construction so it's a nightmare to get around. Normally it's pretty good depending on which airline you are flying.
@ByYourLogic Their trains play songs!!!! Come on!!!!
@ByYourLogic 500k a year seems a bit low. There must be so many of these dorks offering themselves that the cratered the market. It used to be much harder to get a direct line to the president, you had to have an entire apparatus.
I guess that's a side effect of Trump
@ByYourLogic Some smart investments in the Dallas Ft Worth real estate market, a little bit of hustle, and surrounding yourself like-minded hustlers 💪 💪
Loville’s entire watch collection
Not one but THREE DateJusts
A classic AP RoyalOak
and a sporty, casual Richard Mille
💸💸💸 https://t.co/5w0t32jGsR
It feels like we’re still trapped in a spring 2020 paradigm in some places. Even though the reality has shifted, even after vaccination and cases decouple from hospitalizations and death, we’re continuing to operate as if we need to have zero cases in order to be “successful.”
@ByYourLogic at least you can go pay 20 dollars for a dry meal at wolfgang puck
not a great opening frame of an instagram video if we’re being honest https://t.co/hhp7fJHBc4
@ByYourLogic LAX was originally built as a pedophile factory until they realized how much land they bought
@ByYourLogic the phallic symbols are actually fairly fucking sick https://t.co/dcjISF7o1V
@buzzfeedjenny it’s so cool to “supposed to have been” a certain height
Good I love BANGs CEO. He’s the #1 worldwide pimp and purveyor of liquid gold (while also looking incredibly normal and cool) https://t.co/VLVwu6ZTdl
@Lioniseating @ByYourLogic @sampsbydon @DenseHomo @ZeroSuitCamus Log off Felix your done
gotta give AOC credit where its due. "tax the rich" is definitely the funniest possible thing to do a publicity stunt about how crazy and radical it is
Los Angeles is all 6 lane traffic leading to the worst malls of all time
Awfully elitist for someone whose ideal woman is Halsey https://t.co/f6H42oGDL3
From Norm Macdonald's "not a memoir." Such a brilliant guy. https://t.co/h7UGGtHLya
@TradNorm we’ve been tilting towards that for a while, even before Trump. but Biden’s world is surrounded by fucking losers like this guy
@lilaaron911 @thenoelmiller they should have SM7Bs. they get like, Ospreys and Teslas. they should at least have better audio
I love Rothkopf because he’s a typical DC swamp creature. really no different than any of the blockheads Rudy was working with except more pedigreed and smarter. but, like any American now, he wants a media career more than anything https://t.co/rzVk7HmO0M
RT @schwartzbCNBC: NEW: Biden ally @djrothkopf and his firm TRG Advisory have signed a new contract with the United Arab Emirates. It's a t…
@thenoelmiller I’m the last guy who can criticize this usually but their mic settings are all fucked up. they’re not the right distance at all
no Republican governor has ended as many marriages as Gacked Up Gavin. you can buy guns and say shocking stuff, but that’s something he’s got everyone on
@TradNorm it is possible to make $20 million in 2 years as an x ray tech
Burbank airport is so cute…especially compared with LAX, the most evil building ever made
RT @jimmydie1963: Newsom has survived the recall. Write him in some way to urge him to stand by the parole for Sirhan. This brief article…
RT @WiseExecutor: I think history would have turned out very differently if the Germans had won World War Two
@Lioniseating @ZeroSuitCamus @bugposting I’ve accepted Job’s bullcrap
@Sturgeons_Law I’m so sick of toxic Heard fans acting like they didn’t make magic when they were on the same team. and at least I’m not bandwaggoning Amy Badams or Timoflee Fraudomé
I would Parent Trap them into getting back together. if a couple fights as much as they did it means they both care a lot. with both teletherapy and mindfulness I think they could be happy together forever https://t.co/23cNx13wP2
@ZeroSuitCamus inside every person there is a war being fought
wearing contacts too often is terrible for your eyes…scared for people if they do not know this https://t.co/T54xGPz3xH
RT @AGibbonist: The Orangutan enclosure at Pittsburgh Zoo is possibly the worst Primate Enclosure in America and nothing has been done to a…
RT @IdahoBones: the meme wars have begun in the world of outlaw motorcycle gangs. Pagans started allowing corrections officers in and are a…
the guy who made the Denver airport is like the Bam of the NWO. they were all working on how they would get 23 year olds to get filler injections and destabilizing national currencies and they were like ok you can do…the scary airport. just really go nuts man
@secret_helena_ it would be really hard for me to recover from that just to be honest
RT @len0killer: Retweet this if Keemstar should have to take a bath with me!!!
RT @scumbelievable: I guarantee you nobody else has a book with glowing quotes from both Carmen Maria Machado and Felix Biederman from Chap…
RT @SeanMcCarthyCom: PORTLAND: @Yogi_Paliwal and I are doing a one night only stand up show this Thursday Sept 16th at the Siren theater. W…
RT @jensteer: Vote-by-mail votes partially reported in the Cleveland mayoral primary:
Bibb: 22 percent
DiBello: 1 percent
Jones: 8 percent…
RT @lib_crusher: the UAE paying the federal government $1.7 million to make espionage charges go away sure is something alright
@bad_takes I want to sit next to a boomer with a brain that got absolutely fucking broiled by doing acid every day and talk about Nibiru while we’re both blasting huge clouds
@jibboom__ well you can, no one really stops you (haven’t tried it in years), but it’s against the rules. you’re less likely to get caught than any other thing you could do for nicotine
@GerberKawasaki @POTUS agreed. if you make this little you are a LOSER
@bad_takes there should just be a separate set of airports, airlines, possibly entire states for people who don’t care about secondhand smoke or if someone has a gun or whatever. “I could die in a car crash. if someone else dies it’s meant to go” -RX Nephew
RT @John_Hudson: “Was he an aid worker or an ISIS-K operative,” asked @RandPaul
“I don’t know,” said @SecBlinken.
“You’d think you’d ki…
RT @MandelaFace: Norm MacDonald once said "bad comedians say things to make people clap, not laugh" and I think about it all the time
RT @Bing_Chris: DOJ filing suggests Karma hacking tool came from a US vendor.
Wild.
Recall this exact tool was used to hunt down activis…
RT @notsam: Norm is a legend. https://t.co/HnwT3RuILM
RT @nathanTbernard: Ten months after losing her Senate race to Susan Collins, Sara Gideon is still hoarding $10 million of unused campaign…
@laserboat999 ☝️☝️☝️ Chief Internist, Cleveland Clinic
RT @ZachWritesStuff: Bankruptcy judge just approved $7M bonus plan for Purdue Pharma executives (you know, just a treat for their great wor…
RT @BadgerTrust: 📢 We're recruiting! Badger Trust is looking for a Campaigns & Research Manager to join our team to help us grow our impact…
RT @mikerecine: Comedy is hard and the majority of it is mediocre and bad, but Norm always reminded you of how good it could be. RIP to a l…
RT @DEADLINE: BREAKING: Norm MacDonald has died "after a long and private battle with cancer"
The influential comedian and former 'SNL' W…
@sampsbydon @DenseHomo @ZeroSuitCamus @Lioniseating 🗣🗣🗣🗣
@DenseHomo @ZeroSuitCamus @Lioniseating yeah and? welcome to New York. that’s not necessarily sexual
RT @thickyrubio: Aloha! You haven’t heard from me lately because I’ve been working for Blackwater.
RT @debdrens: hey man every time we’d go out to this club you’d mention to the girls you were nicki minaj’s cousin like, non-stop. good lin…
@kellymakena can’t they just make a battery case for the 12 I fucking hate this company
RT @dwnews: Greek authorities are investigating the crash of a private jet carrying a prosecution witness in a corruption case against form…
RT @thenation: For too long Palestinian voices have been silenced. The Nation is proud to have brought Mohammed el-Kurd on as Palestine cor…
RT @TheStalwart: IT MIGHT BE A PROBLEM THAT HARDLY ANYONE IS SPENDING BITCOIN
For the Odd Lots blog post, I wrote about the lack of fees t…
@ZeroSuitCamus @Lioniseating I am being misrepresented
@ByYourLogic Wait you can’t chew on an airplane? God were closer to the apocalypse than I thought
@ByYourLogic dianetics can get them knocking boots once again
@ByYourLogic Signing up for a spirit credit card and automatically dropping 300 points on my credit score for the vibes
@ByYourLogic you dont have to listen to it if you pull out a gun right when they start
this is what’s in spider man’s wrist https://t.co/uFZeyCloEy
@ByYourLogic I wear them for months at a time without taking them out but I'm a freak. If you wear them too long, the blood vessels of the sclera start growing into the cornea
Friedman scores another grand slam https://t.co/FrahjtY83D
Nothing can stop me Im all the way up! https://t.co/sBAZJrgL9a
a state funded podcast is the progress we want to see in this country 👏👏👏 https://t.co/RuMUIEX6Ig
This shows how collosally stupid US mainstream discourse on Russian "authoritarianism" is. Were the state to be democratically constituted, it would be basically communist and McPravda flacks would lose their minds even more... https://t.co/3rDX2BvDRm
I watch maybe 1-3 Norm compilations on youtube every week and just remembered when he tweeted this about Brody. Death fucking sucks but it is beautiful knowing that you can go back and watch them on the computer whenever you miss them https://t.co/mIojrHLvpH
Tito's complaining that Anderson illegally punched him in the back of the head. (The Instagram post got deleted.) https://t.co/WRI9X59kDv
I am deeply obsessed with this Egyptian-American guy with the best book title in history. https://t.co/xESak8iXAM
Even in death, Norm is making me laugh https://t.co/RlHh5QPk73
@ByYourLogic my cousin wore contacts once, his eyes swelled up so much that his wife left him.
@ByYourLogic @thenoelmiller u want them to be cops AND nerds???
@ByYourLogic Bringing grizz mint on my next flight you can bet that
When you finally get discharged after being in the hospital for 9 days with pneumonia and other serious health problems -- all recovered and happy to go home -- only to discover that the assholes you live with got yet another puppy. https://t.co/QBnTnlVgC9
*Taps mic*
Some professional news! https://t.co/4Aq5emltT5
The Court is an impartial actor calling balls and strikes https://t.co/E817mnp0cK
By administrative edict, Brown University students are currently barred from conducting "events, activities, and meetings" in person. The student body is 98% vaccinated. What's the endgame here, you ask? There is none #PermanentCrisis https://t.co/5p2Au2Hd3h
"Newsome" is trending, and that is not how Gavin Newsom's name is spelled, so adjust your recall projections accordingly.
Great work! https://t.co/rAT1Ez2lPn https://t.co/SqRyLuql0P
@JordanUhl @insurgentspod @robrousseau Apologies for my bad audio quality! Technical problems on my end.
@silenced02 @JordanUhl boof by the bag boy
it’s sad boy
come see end but don’t get on stage or I’ll kick your ass I’m not getting covid so u can fuck up the timing at the end of necessary death https://t.co/UKBLRgKf0Q
none of u actually care that CP dropped we’d probably end up playing at the same time as some other band you wanna see more it’s literally fuckin fine lmao
alright I already lost mis sigs and ptw of cartel drops furnace I’m gonna have a fucking shit fit and be an absolutely grump ass the whole weekend
Super excited to be joining the @latimes next week to cover Congress! I’ll be launching a new beat on how the interests & activities of the caucuses intersect with those of the people of California and the politics & policies on Capitol Hill https://t.co/Wc2v3u1qBH
Some of the attraction of twitter-dunking - it's bad and I am trying to not do it anymore - is seeing how witless most dunking is and thinking "I can do better than THAT" https://t.co/5tyG56G2iu
!!!!! sitting next to a couple on a flight and he told his wife to check her phone and she just said "what does mile high club mean" !!!!!
@JordanUhl @BryanGarris_ fame is a mask that eats into the face
Pattern of Republicans trading white college grads for minority votes continues:
https://t.co/bc5hEiX189
Benny is out here riffing on a Mastercard ad campaign from 24 years ago. Could you do better than that? Sure you could. But why bother?
New artist on @OtherPeopleRec just dropped this amazing video for an incredible song. 👇 https://t.co/8THQDPA72V
one tea abt magazines is they want poc for digital and the internet but print! that's for the home team
@JordanUhl @reynlord @BryanGarris_ I feel personally attacked
For too long Palestinian voices have been silenced. The Nation is proud to have brought Mohammed el-Kurd on as Palestine correspondent. https://t.co/6gkdNtYG7l
Three great candidates for a primary opponent. https://t.co/41O3nm3byL
The Masking of the Servant Class: Ugly COVID Images From the Met Gala Are Now Commonplace
https://t.co/3cyANKaU8D
The world would be an entirely different place if the ultra wealthy paid their fair share in taxes.
#TaxTheUltraRich
h/t @CAPAction https://t.co/2gAxycNGSF
After the Jan6 insurrection, @GM pledged to pause political donations to ensure candidates align w/ $GM values. #GM broke its promise & said #EverybodyIn by giving PAC $ to seditious politicians who fueled the insurrection. They must stop now. #GMFuelsInsurrection #ChevyLove #GMC https://t.co/ll2s1buGfq
So why does this article exist? Simple — to give Sinema the veneer of technocratic competency.
She has SPREADSHEETS. She is collecting DATA.
Which obscures something missing from the article: There’s no discussion of WHAT that data represents.
https://t.co/LpgWutkBrw
how come no one wore this to the met gala ? https://t.co/8HRkmeNplr
@reynlord @BryanGarris_ real friends choose Fortnite over touring
@BryanGarris_ @reynlord yes and how much it hurts you abandoned the squad
@reynlord funniest @BryanGarris_ was him telling us he discovered porn by googling this
https://t.co/NerpeqVXfK
my california friends being forced to vote for Newsom to prevent someone worse lol https://t.co/aZfZudHP9a
@JordanUhl That’s why you don’t understand Dave Rubin when he explains that Joe Biden is doing thanos via his socialism 1984
@JordanUhl It’s called infinity war dipshit and the avengers won
I mean what straightness have I displayed in the past several years https://t.co/7CXQlKCCUP
The state GOP opted not to endorse a candidate once Elder got in! https://t.co/fYbAZGgTwD
I hope that @TuckerCarlson is undeterred and continues his search for Nicki Minaj's cousin's friend's swollen balls. I really want to watch his continued coverage. https://t.co/r98e45jn0L
Feliz día de la independencia 🇭🇳 https://t.co/mAsEW2pA7h
@AndyBCampbell @mtracey @SebastianMurdoc 🤣
I thrive on your contempt. Good luck trying to jump that sinking ship before it crashes and burns completely.
Someone has been researching the disturbing trajectory of one @JoyAnnReid. https://t.co/BgWFVmzvbe
Thanks for your leadership in the Golden State, Governor @GavinNewsom! 🙏
TODAY every reasonable Californian will avoid electing a spectacularly unqualified radio talk-show host & tRump-wannabe by overwhelmingly rejecting the Republican Recall.
JUST VOTE: https://t.co/xBF9qBU006
no one guessed it. Hawaii threw most off. we played Honolulu in en route to Australia
the answer is:
Maine
New Hampshire
Alaska
Montana
Wyoming
Mississippi
West virginia
South Dakota
If you live in these places: doing our best to jam there soon🥲
so $100 to Trevor project https://t.co/15C7gtPmK6
SCOOP: The Mercers, led by Robert & Rebekah Mercer, secretly gave nearly $20 million in 2020 to the dark money fund known as the Donors Trust.
It allowed them to bankroll conservative causes during the election without having to disclose who they financed
https://t.co/qsGzifMszG
This story is suspect, but if the deep state stopped trump from bombing China, then go deep state I guess. https://t.co/QsFJ0gYYey
Hi. California, vote NO on the recall and don't assume it's in the bag. Primary time is coming—and Elder is not the answer. https://t.co/LzOJPGq00M
@AFCHugoEnzo @dcRPollock right here https://t.co/Oy2g31xsLw
The three Democrats are:
@ScottPetersCA52
@KathleenRice
@RepSchrader https://t.co/w3vjtbLIpt
this video from @dcRPollock fucking rocks
https://t.co/c0UkAKnVCw
@misledyuth @dcRPollock nah twitter just didn't update the preview card. click through you'll see.
RT @tomfromstray: New artist on @OtherPeopleRec just dropped this amazing video for an incredible song. 👇
RT @dcRPollock: New single/video out now for a new tune “light weight” on @otherpeoplerec: https://t.co/9P9SJ68gAu
utterly perplexed a serious newsman and brave truthteller like tucker ran with this & it ended up falling through :/ https://t.co/faAQFz1rt1
@_waleedshahid lol and in her statement she plainly cited drug prices as the top priority too. So fucking cynical https://t.co/el9lJawQCA
RT @veganeggma: Wrote this song in solidarity with survivors. Love you all hope you enjoy 🤍
The "forever wars" are far from over https://t.co/CkUWrsL4E7
RT @schwartzbCNBC: SCOOP: The Mercers, led by Robert & Rebekah Mercer, secretly gave nearly $20 million in 2020 to the dark money fund know…
RT @TheBrookeMarks: @JordanUhl @bretterlich i never leave a friend behind https://t.co/SmGOnJZ0un
breaking down the cali recall results now: @tomfromstray
https://t.co/7iABVWY3g3 https://t.co/2I5hQ4bow1
first batch of ca recall votes
watching now:
https://t.co/7iABVWY3g3 https://t.co/Kb996drmvG https://t.co/Ak31pT3eit
live now with @TheBrookeMarks & @bretterlich pic unrelated
https://t.co/7iABVWY3g3 https://t.co/GtUumemCVY
RT @brendan905: come see end but don’t get on stage or I’ll kick your ass I’m not getting covid so u can fuck up the timing at the end of n…
RT @tjotimmy8: The Court is an impartial actor calling balls and strikes https://t.co/E817mnp0cK
@JoelDTD @reynlord @BryanGarris_ Fire up that PlayStation Joel
RT @ItsDanSheehan: Every year a bunch of celebrities go to the Met Gala dressed as wind chimes or whatever and we all tweet "INCREDIBLE" wh…
RT @ItsDanSheehan: Has the Met Gala considered incorporating more Magic: The Gathering content for the folks at home
live now talking about the california recall, fox news vaccination rates, brown university's cost of war study & more
https://t.co/Y93mPMgZrw
RT @oliverdarcy: Fox Corp. HR chief Kevin Lord just sent out a memo to staff saying that “90% of full-time employees reported they are full…
RT @MoveOn: The world would be an entirely different place if the ultra wealthy paid their fair share in taxes.
#TaxTheUltraRich
h/t @CAP…
@adamjohnsonNYC @insurgentspod @robrousseau No sweat man. Your commentary is worth working through it and Rob worked his magic to salvage most of it.
new @insurgentspod
@adamjohnsonNYC joins @robrousseau and me to reflect on 9/11 20 years later and the "worker shortage" narrative infecting the media
https://t.co/K1xTbHvqhk
RT @dyingwishhc: Beyond stoked to announce that we’ve been added to Sunday of @FurnaceFest alongside many incredible bands. This is also ou…
oh shit @dyingwishhc on furnace fest lets go https://t.co/ww8Of41be7
RT @thenation: For too long Palestinian voices have been silenced. The Nation is proud to have brought Mohammed el-Kurd on as Palestine cor…
Israel warplanes destroy poultry farms in Gaza, further imperiling the food supply for Palestinians
https://t.co/0LcFFYeoWi
RT @MoveOn: After the Jan6 insurrection, @GM pledged to pause political donations to ensure candidates align w/ $GM values. #GM broke its p…
@JordanUhl @bretterlich i never leave a friend behind https://t.co/SmGOnJZ0un
Watching this story unfold with the intensity of a dozen suns... https://t.co/usbv3lttsR
@JordanUhl Oh no I just Google image searched “man” and I now I have to be gay
Vinyl re-issue of “Subliminal Criminals” as a part of the @unfdcentral 10 Year Vinyl Series! Pre-orders start sept 23. Orders ship early October! https://t.co/KxXebzmnHK
Let us quite literally fucking go 💨 https://t.co/WUo08MybJd
Beyond stoked to announce that we’ve been added to Sunday of @FurnaceFest alongside many incredible bands. This is also our first time playing Alabama. See you there 🤍 https://t.co/jgnN4TRrZM
When the STD from your one night stand causes an international incident because your friend’s cousin is famous. https://t.co/LaqdE5bFgo
Wrote this song in solidarity with survivors. Love you all hope you enjoy 🤍 https://t.co/bspCY88D3b
@FurnaceFest Tell Chris Dave from Lambgoat greatly appreciates the glassjaw addition.
@Eve6 dudes rock clause was the best thing to happen to men since birth
Even for someone with Friedman's record this lede is wildly racist https://t.co/9bbyqEmuT9
Janey walked it back quickly but between her tanking, Kucinich losing after not saying if he’d been vaccinated, and Newsom turning vaccine mandates into a Dem base motivator, I see a pattern.
Oh, you want the Met Gala news cycle to end? You want to go back to discussing horse dewormer and the Taliban? Be my guest, I'm gonna look at party photos with Getty Images tags on them.
@TomSzymanski Yes, because it's how the pool feed works, that's Daniel's point.
@daveweigel thanks to KimK we can discuss the Taliban *and* the Met Gala together
Lazy and corrupt corporate "journalists" should take notes here and learn what real reporting is: sweating through your blazer while haranguing undergrads through a loudspeaker on a Connecticut street corner
https://t.co/MFtTrj4JjM
AOC wanted to hang out with a bunch of rich celebs at a cool party without losing her socialist street cred so she tossed “Tax the Rich” on the back of her dress & called it a day. It’s not much more complicated than that.
@stevesingiser Easy for me to say because I've been living in LA, but the national takery on this was... not great https://t.co/jyJjp8m509
Norm was not only the funniest comedian to ever live. He was my first comedy hero, he was my first boss, he was my friend. With the exception of my wife, I’ve probably spent more hours with him than anyone else over the last decade. He taught me everything I know about comedy. https://t.co/DAQMlMGXgN
Test how old you are: Do you think first of Connor Roy being "interested in politics at a very young age" or of Cameron going "he'll keep calling me, and CALLING me... I'll go, I'll go, I'll go." https://t.co/vdA8Cozy4I
An hour til polls close; time for some music from Recall Country https://t.co/EQbUtbaavV
@Bencjacobs I said "Kanye" into the mirror three times and you showed up!
Other networks might have called the race, but we’ve got Fox at the Elder party and they’re not Arizona-ing this one https://t.co/o7n105xXsG
Larry Elder’s website promoting voter fraud before results (or votes) are even in is hilarious for its preemptive concession but it’s also very dangerous. It talks ominously about how the “ammo box” might be needed. These guys are openly calling for terrorism. #CaliforniaRecall
Watching liberal media stars spend 5 years trying to thread the needle between "we are so grateful to the unelected but noble Generals thwarting Trump" and "only insane conspiracy nuts believe the US has a Deep State" has been quite dizzying. https://t.co/M7vPJ8Fmva
ELDER CONCEDES
"Let's be gracious in defeat," Elder says. "We may have lost the battle, but we are going to win the war."
Interesting sidebar in #CArecall was this hermetically sealed new conservative media that was in complete denial about what was happening.
https://t.co/QQhmhObOOf
Fox call onscreen, party getting slightly quieter https://t.co/XKfqUOJFeY
As in-person voting gets underway in California, Donald Trump releases yet another statement saying the race is "totally rigged" and Newsom will "probably win."
GOTV, baby
Elder thanking staff by name, thanking surrogates like Betty Chu and Gloria Romero. "She's a Democrat - hopefully a recovering Democrat, we will see."
@cmclymer @ilyseh @LEBassett I’m just some “random guy” now, huh
Joy Reid is petrified to respond to or even acknowledge the barrage of well-researched and harsh criticism she got from Nicki Manaj because the only tactics Joy knows how to employ don't work here, so she's at a loss for what to do, hoping it just stops.
I felt some east coast snobbery in this storyline — a glib sense that Californians loved celebrities so Jenner could be a factor. She had no idea what she was doing and voters notice things like that. https://t.co/IMV5IZRO5r
Say what you want about Elder but he’d been talking about policy and ideas on his shows since the early 90s. Jenner couldn’t even remember how she voted.
To be fair, Dems were scrambling for some way to scare their base, so they spent a little time talking about her. But she quickly revealed herself as a lightweight and it was clear that Republican voters weren’t interested in voting for her.
Using the term "political prisoners" in this context is ridiculous. People were swept up in a dragnet over an actual crime. Are some of them innocent? They may be. Are some being over-prosecuted? Likely. But that's why we have trials; it's why we have due process of law. https://t.co/LGlXBfvO92
Schwarzenegger had never *held* office but he was cultivating an image as a civic-minded moderate who understood how California worked.
Schwarzenegger had spent years building political cred before the recall. 11 months before he won the gov race, he was the face of a successful education funding ballot measure. https://t.co/YPEs9Uf44X https://t.co/q9UgxFHZDt
@blakehounshell After the Garland experience it's very much about 2022 - McConnell has come up with reasons not to allow a vote on a nominee before, why not again?
Polls show Elder around 35% on the second part of the ballot, but most Dems are leaving that blank. So, imagine that "no" gets 55% of 12 million votes, but Elder gets 56% of 8 million votes. It will be a popular myth that Elder ran ahead of Newsom. https://t.co/FupKbql0TO
There are always some "can this candidate take out this R in a +30 Trump district" articles, which are dumb. But imagine if MSNBC ran segment after segment in late October 2020 insisting Amy McGrath was going to win.
If your dog barks along to my Boy George Bark-along, please show me. https://t.co/AdbVwuQsjL
i remember when half of internet memes was this https://t.co/FVMGx9Npgb
RT @AVindman: If this is true GEN Milley must resign. He usurped civilian authority, broke Chain of Command, and violated the sacrosanct pr…
RT @cmarinucci: --@LarryElder just now on @KMJNow: Q. "If you do not win today, do you have plans to run again when @GavinNewsom is up for…
2003 Gray Davis recall vet -> https://t.co/ahsD6MVjEG
Newsom-Biden campaign closed out with "Stop! In the Name of Love" yesterday - not bad but they missed the chance to use this bop https://t.co/91CuI4W7X7
RT @kkondik: When Newsom won in 2018 by 24 pts statewide, he only carried Orange County by a few tenths of a point.
If "yes" is only winning OC by single digits you can also probably send champagne and flowers to Newsom.
I don't gamble on this stuff but if I *did* I'd take the under on this one. Orange County was 72-28 for the 2003 recall, polling this year has it tied.
If the recall can't get a majority in OC it's probably failing by 20 points statewide. https://t.co/hmiyIRV7wA
RT @NickRiccardi: A little news on Larry Elder's petition claiming fraud in the recall before votes are counted -- significant parts are co…
RT @remynuma: Reminder that a rando San Diego businessman called George Schwartzman placed ninth in 2003 because his name sounded a bit lik…
This is such a great story that I am tweeting about it TWICE, treatment I usually just reserve for dumb arguments with guys like AdrenochromeBandit420.
Can never get enough "what is with that thing that's being advertised wherever you go" stories.
https://t.co/83obvjnjQc
RT @nbeaudrot: Mark Levin -- now the highest rated conservative talk show host -- does seem to be gearing up for state legislature supremac…
RT @kristoncapps: There are 37 immersive Van Gogh exhibits happening in the U.S. right now. And I found the worst one: https://t.co/Iz8GDZG…
RT @SirajAHashmi: Norm MacDonald said this at the fuckin ESPYs lmaooo. an absolute legend. rest in peace Norm https://t.co/d3zEX35cla
RT @DEADLINE: BREAKING: Norm MacDonald has died "after a long and private battle with cancer"
The influential comedian and former 'SNL' W…
RT @freedlander: .@AOC responds: “I and my body have been so heavily and relentlessly policed from all corners politically…we had a convers…
RT @Bencjacobs: The electoral record for the extended Kardashian clan was set in 2020 when Kanye West got 60,160 votes for Vice President i…
RT @pbump: Rolling out endorsements after 9 million votes have been cast is one thing. But also worth noting that Piazza's hall-of-fame pla…
RT @margarita: It’s (recall) Election Day in California! Time to choose your own results adventure (three scenarios) https://t.co/x2c17LXN…
RT @nathanTbernard: Ten months after losing her Senate race to Susan Collins, Sara Gideon is still hoarding $10 million of unused campaign…
Basically CA Dems were traumatized by the 2003 experience, when the Latino LG ran as a "Plan B" candidate and, they think, encouraged more Latinos to recall Davis. https://t.co/0XOlGlzOyI
@NoahJAguirre Yeah, anecdotally I know people who voted for joke candidates just because they felt weird not voting for someone. Polling says 40% of Dems have no preference on replacement, some number of them will probably mark something.
RT @cmarinucci: Rescue CA recall backer @tomdelbeccaro, asked about Trump & @LarryElder claims of "rigged" CA election: "Anybody who discou…
I do not have the power to read election results before they come in, but those numbers would mean 2018 midterm-ish turnout.
RT @byelin: lol. The Claire McCaskill playbook to the extreme.
This is a very specific media-crit story for somebody, but I consume a lot of conservative media, and I feel like videos of Biden walking away without taking questions get more play than his answers to the questions.
Almost nobody watches these White House events live, but the RNC does, and it clips the moments when the feed cuts out. Dale's right about what's happening with the feed, but it's politically useful to pretend something sinister is happening. https://t.co/GkjVVrm1vY
Monday was one of the GOP's best days for #CArecall ballot returns, but they still trailed Democrats - 45% of votes came from registered Ds, 31% from registered Rs.
Final early/mail vote party numbers as polls open: 4.5 million D, 2.2 million R, 2 million I/other.
Caitlyn Jenner to @JaxAlemany: Larry Elder "was kind of the gift that Democrats needed to attack right now... California is really center — maybe center left — and so when Larry got in, we kind of lost that.” https://t.co/4okTG42mYL
@PlatypusLyfe Yes, and importantly, the same dynamic where you can look at polls before the other side's base tunes in and think "oh man, we're winning!"
My most contrarian take is that the Met Gala seems fun and is fun to read about https://t.co/0v2dZAUxwg
I keep thinking that #CArecall is less like 2003 Arnold race and more like 2002: Gray Davis singling out the most right-wing opponent and making the election a choice, not a referendum. But Tim sees an interesting base-pleasing/election losing trend here https://t.co/QWWUJyHwBQ
RT @AlexYablon: AOC didn't pay $35,000 to attend the Met gala because she knows that place only has a suggested donation for admissions and…
@T0Paine Have never seen him outside the context of liberals mocking him on Twitter, and I consume a lot of conservative media (Fox, OAN, etc)
RT @JakeSherman: >@ChrisMurphyCT to me and @bresreports in @PunchbowlNews this AM
“Democrats' sort of reluctance to defend the administrat…
RT @Robillard: New: Elizabeth Warren is endorsing Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes in Wisconsin’s Senate race. The move should help Barnes seal up p…
RT @donmoyn: Plenty of them are not silent but piling on - sharing the story (Bari Weiss), snitch-tagging her employer (Megan Kelley), call…
RT @Kotaku: Japan gets freaky-looking Attack on Titan trash and recycling bins: https://t.co/53mro3uS3b https://t.co/TQoGxGsUPu
RT @lachlan: how it started how it's going https://t.co/dcJ2fjcIlJ
People think the only difference between Mr. Met and Mr. Red (the Cincinnati Reds mascot) is that Mr. Red has a mustache. This is incorrect. Mr. Red’s baseball head is full of gallons and gallons of blood. https://t.co/E3bDiJSOAi
God bless you for giving those degens some copium, Dave. You just made me some $$. https://t.co/UWBBs2mngX
Happy to report we've added @ggreenwald to the list.
We needed some balance in the political force. https://t.co/VnMnPhQN0l
I don't agree with AOC on a lot but damn I respect the shit out of her hustle. That woman is savvy.
@ggreenwald I am an AOC fan.
But this was an AOC fail.
@RepGaramendi @jamiegangel @MarkHertling @StephenAtHome .@JoeNBC attacks Republicans criticizing Gen. Milley for usurping Trump: “Are you so stupid, I just got to ask, are you so stupid, are you so ignorant of how things work that you don’t know that from time to time generals talk to generals?" https://t.co/hxUCxH6niD
@mattklewis @kittypurrzog Thanks, Matt - just what I needed. I didn't suggest that, though. Joy Reid's hackers (who, let's remember, are still at large) were the ones who sent you that tweet. I'll still listen to the show, though, despite Katie's bizarre views.
@mattklewis @kittypurrzog Her theories about the disappearance of butch lesbians (if, that is, you feel like trending).
If you find it disturbing that elites go mask-free while their servants are forced to wear cloth over their face as they carry the train of their designer dress, it probably means you are a white supremacist and/or a misogynist, as AOC said earlier.
https://t.co/c3L1JSfPYQ
The essence of the Met Gala is that ultra-rich people pay huge sums to meet and be photographed with celebrities ... and then deduct their night out from their taxes. Why has no one pointed out that Alexandria Ocasio Cortez wore a "tax the rich" dress *to a tax shelter*?
@ggreenwald Just FYI, this was the situation for Real Housewives of Beverley Hills. It was gross to watch, unmasked rich people but masked servants, but it’s been on TV for a while.
More examples of Democratic politicians issuing demands to Big Tech monopolies about which political content they should and should not promote, with implicit threats of state punishment for non-compliance:
https://t.co/0HVTN2ZvUk
AOC said this was about how revolutionary it is that two working-class women of color like them are now able to attend the Met Gala and I think we should leave it at that. We need praxis to be courageous, not perfect. https://t.co/kH6X2ZyO2H
I have to say, the left getting Dick Cheney, Bill Kristol, Wall St, & CIA-stanning, and the right getting Kanye, Nicki Minaj, protectionist economics, & the anti-war movement, is not a development I saw coming.
Michael Tracey again did something his left-liberal critics won't - got his ass off the couch to go do actual reporting on a consequential societal and political conflict - and now they're all holding hands to mock him as the outcast nerd in an attempt to feel tribally protected. https://t.co/K1SuZH5lE2
There's a reason it's called MSDNC. https://t.co/ncA6qxkRf2
Also, as @ggreenwald just pointed out, you can tell people's social position at #MetGala2021 by mask or not.
Looking at the pic/ vids, ostensibly woke celebs not wearing masks, but all the lower class people apparently required to: https://t.co/ZyJzxCdan3
#WeHaveNeverBeenWoke https://t.co/Ak2mPqxCKZ
@AndyBCampbell @ggreenwald You and your ilk are the biggest bunch of bullies until someone swings back. Without fail.
KEEP 👏 THEIR 👏 POINTLESS 👏 FACES 👏 COVERED 👏 https://t.co/YGFpxa3Be5
@bparispoker Good or bad, it wouldn't have had anything to do with "democratic norms" and it would have been classic Deep State behavior.
Liberals are happy to be governed by CIA because CIA was where Russiagate came from and they see CIA (correctly) as their political ally. They'll never admit it explicitly -- nobody on the center-left wants to say they see CIA as the Good Guys -- but this is their worldview.
Imagine if, in 2011, a right-wing General called Gaddafi and said: "Obama wants to bomb your country and usher in regime change against you even though the House voted *against* its authorization. I give you my word I'll let you know what he's planning & stop him from bombing."
It was widely reported in major outlets like WSJ that CIA, on its own, was concealing classified information they didn't want Trump to have. They sometimes just ignored his orders in Syria. This was *cheered.*
If that's not a "Deep State," nothing is.
https://t.co/BOORFh9ecE
In US Government jargon, "democratic leaders" has always meant: "leaders who do what we want regardless of how they came to power" (hence, pro-US dictators are "democrats" while anti-US elected leaders are "dictators").
That's the same definition liberal media figures have.
The other bizarre aspect of the last 5 years was watching these same liberal media figures prance around as defenders of "norms" and "democratic values" while simultaneously swooning over every unelected military/intel official who purposely impeded or sabotaged Trump's policies.
RT @mtaibbi: Bush by any rational measure was a hundred times the monster Trump was, but he gets a pass because his offenses were instituti…
RT @JerryDunleavy: AOC wanted to hang out with a bunch of rich celebs at a cool party without losing her socialist street cred so she tosse…
RT @JornalismoWando: A #VazaJato já havia mostrado que Léo Pinheiro só conseguiu fechar delação premiada depois que mudou o testemunho e pa…
Ótima pergunta.
Uma grande parte dos abusos de Lava Jato veio da mídia corporativa que adorava Moro, que disseminou ruidosamente para o público tudo o que ele e LJ vazaram sem a menor verificação ou questionamento. https://t.co/RRwGY7uwns
@R_H_Ebright I honestly don't know why it's so hard for so many people to just say that. Genuinely appreciate that you can.
@pt_wade No, but I'm not a Novak-hater. I like Medvedev a lot and want the GOAT debate to remain a debate.
For those who think tennis is boring (full video here: https://t.co/7QEIK5nIRS) https://t.co/rPRjI5KDe7
RT @johnrobertgage: .@AOC responds to criticism that “she’s rich.”
“They want you to think that when we talk about rich, we’re talking abo…
Chatting with the Huffington Post reporters as it finally crashes and burns into its inevitable and well-deserved destruction that nobody will notice. https://t.co/2hqYxWyxzu
@AndyBCampbell @mtracey @SebastianMurdoc People like you are the reason the public despises journalists and are right to do so. I'm sorry nobody reads your pointless work that has accomplished nothing but I'd suggest working harder is a better solution than weaponizing mental health insults to vent your frustrations.
@AndyBCampbell @mtracey How it is possible that things like this happen with such amazingly talented, brave and heterodox journalists like you and @SebastianMurdoc over there? It's completely baffling.
https://t.co/PbzgBRW0oL
In the last year alone, Democratic-controlled Congressional Committees have summoned tech CEOs before them, explicitly demanded they censor more political content from the internet, and threatened legal and regulatory retaliation if they don't:
https://t.co/6xfmq2ZdW1
Would really love to hear any AOC fans try to justify this repugnant scene. Step right up with all of your best contortions. 🌹🌹✊
https://t.co/XBssPMN2mp
RT @ggreenwald: The Masking of the Servant Class: Ugly COVID Images From the Met Gala Are Now Commonplace
https://t.co/3cyANKaU8D
If you're one of those historically ignorant people who got convinced by CNN and NYT op-ed writers that "Deep State" is a term invented in 2017 by Sean Hannity rather than a staple of (left-wing) foreign policy scholarship for decades, use whatever term you like but this is it.
The same employees of media corporations who spent four years cheering unelected military officials for ignoring Trump's orders, undermining them, concealing classified information from him, etc were the same who claimed only conspiratorial idiots believe the US has a Deep State.
It's always dangerous when unelected military leaders like Milley decide they should secretly undermine and subvert the policies of the elected President. There's a constitutional process to do it if necessary. This, by contrast, is pure Deep State abuse:
https://t.co/CE9H3kMRql
Sam Seder has been sad-sacking around various online and cable platforms for 15 years, spouting liberal platitudes and serving the Democratic Party while earning his living from Google, and this is the first reporting he ever did in his life: a real blockbuster. Congrats, Sam! https://t.co/7Y7ywmbmJA
@theserfstv @EoinHiggins_ @atrupar @SamSacks Don't flatter yourself. I never heard of you until you published that deceitfully edited video of me 10 days ago and it wasn't worth even moving my finger to the mute button.
She "broke the fourth wall" -- that again -- and forced a bunch of Biden Democrat celebrities and other assorted cultural liberals in attendance to be deeply uncomfortable because she wore a designer gown calling on the the rich be taxed. She did it all for you.✊ https://t.co/ARDaPjft5T
Never would have guessed that @AOC would announce that anyone questioning her appearance at the Met Gala is motivated by racism, misogyny and various other forms of bigotry. That's so unlike her to do. https://t.co/wvSjI7zwD6
RT @davidmirandario: Ainda não votou no Prêmio Congresso em Foco 2021?
Mais uma vez fui indicado ao Prêmio Congresso em Foco. Concorro nas…
@BridgetPhetasy She really knows how to keep them wrapped around her finger: no denying that. If she bought Buckingham Palace tomorrow and moved in and declared herself Queen of England, she'd have an army of DSA activists arguing that it's a huge blow for the advancement of global socialism.
Hi @SecBlinken: Two weeks ago, your administration fired a missile from a drone and extinguished the lives of 12 Afghan people. Were any of them actually ISIS terrorists, as you claimed?
@SecBlinken: 🤷♂️
#AmericaIsBack #WhyDoTheyHateUS? https://t.co/Xmex1XpIVE
@shaqnasty3 @EoinHiggins_ @atrupar @SamSacks What an enormous bonanza for their careers.
@EoinHiggins_ @atrupar @SamSacks I just unblocked you to mock you as a complete and total zero in journalism and the world, which is why you need to join in with the Aaron Rupars & Sam Sacks of the world to mock Michael Tracey: so you have some in-group purpose and self-esteem. I'll block you again tomorrow.
@BorzoiBystander @AOC You can't possibly have misunderstood that sentence as severely and completely as your tweet suggests.
@GrantLingel Watching his teevee and *distorting* videos.
It's totally unfair to hold people to the standards of courage and intrepid investigation long displayed by giants of journalism such as those tribalistic comrades @EoinHiggins_, @atrupar and @SamSacks. It's just not a bar anyone can meet.
@zmaaay That something is common doesn't make it right. In fact, that it's so commonplace and normalized to have servants in masks and everyone else maskless is what I find most disturbing.
And it's not just the US. Here's a viral video circulating in Brazil today of some of the richest and most powerful men in Brazil, sitting and talking unmasked, while being waited on by masked servants. How long is this kind of imagery sustainable?
https://t.co/jTrLCfy1Yh
One final message for @AOC's embittered and envious critics, stewing with jealousy and resentment that she got to go and they didn't. https://t.co/a5V9rAV0jI
All of this stopped being about The Science™ long ago. But the COVID pandemic has somehow managed to create all new ways to make the enormous chasm between the lives of cultural and political elites and everyone else even larger than it was before.
https://t.co/3cyANKaU8D
While AOC's subversive praxis was obviously a watershed moment for working-class politics, the more important lesson is the normalization of forcing servants to be masked while the elites they serve are free: a perfect symbol of the rot of America's cultural Balkanization. https://t.co/B1VFiS764M
Contrary to her jealous critics, AOC was not reveling a Louis XVI court festivity. She was *storming the Bastille*: not with weapons or fire but with the graceful designer elegance of the insurgent Marxist renegade, which made her presence all the more deceptively disruptive. https://t.co/2Ba09SuaP8
While AOC's revolutionary and subversive socialist gown generated buzz, the normalization of maskless elites attended to by faceless servants is grotesque.
At Pelosi's donor lunch, Obama's birthday bash, and last night: workers are moving from figuratively to literally faceless.
@ggreenwald I'm one of those people! Why I appreciate you.
One more to thread the needle through: "Collusion with foreign powers is an unforgivable, executable offense."
Except when it's a good liberal norms thing, apparently. https://t.co/JbblpEjXGf
So tonight I got hit in the nuts by a ball kid toss with a little too much mustard, slapped the wayward ball into the fence, which collided with a refs tushy as he was walking to the other side, resulting in a default.
How’s your evening going? 😂 https://t.co/Tqe7lOkCLy
@ggreenwald Glenn this reminds me of that anecdote you told on @jimmy_dore show about Chris Hayes writing a book about being captured by elite consensus/lifestyle and then saying he ‘never thought about’ it happening to him. i have to assume fame is seductive and most people succumb 🤷♂️
Pleased to announce his Honorable Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed is awarded first annual Montgomery Burns Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Excellence https://t.co/Th3TmiFa3G
damn........ the dress worked https://t.co/71XlscC9OX
Love to be denounced as a fanatical right-winger for noticing the instatement of a permanent mass surveillance regime, sustained by corporate interests in collusion with government, and predicated on fallacious notions of “safety.” Used to be considered a fanatical left-wing view
@ggreenwald @atrupar @SamSacks Thanks for unblocking me Glenn :)
Michael the guy you "befriended" yesterday DM'd me. He tested positive for COVID this morning and keeps trying to call you to tell you to get tested since you were a close contact but you just keep begging for his video https://t.co/VutzSNlLzG https://t.co/4CNHZRW5h0
I was on #breakingpoints the other day with @krystalball and @esaagar to talk about how George W. Bush and corporate America exploited 9/11. https://t.co/keicmewTsN
Axios has a breathless puff piece celebrating Sinema for supposedly being able to perform elementary arithmetic https://t.co/FKpXp4IaXb
I get incorrectly tagged in a lot of wrong tweets but this one is going to be ... particularly bad https://t.co/LSpINPnQrJ
I warned you about zero-sum hypercompetition bro, I TOLD you dog https://t.co/WhlfDE0Rz5
Listen to me and brilliant @rozina_ali discuss vexing question about why no one is ever held responsible for anything in the war on terror: https://t.co/X94sA3BM9B
morale situation is supercritical. our nation turns its lonely eyes to Dune. it's all down to you denis
Again, with feeling: seems more and more clear that the "ideological" evil of ISIS, Taliban etc. has blinded way too many people to the banal "administrative" evils of actually-existing American warmaking - which surely played no small part in how we lost https://t.co/1eGNHSI6Gk
I concede: "Tax the Rich" is indeed a policy. It's a policy of marketing an industry of media and activist social influencers as radical, working class revolutionaries to an audience of frail, poorly aging theater kids and hall monitor dweebs who have multiple rare nut allergies.
if i do something dumb i expect my friends to defend me as vociferously as glenn greenwald defends his. full on "the most loathed people in america, the lowest of dogs, are mocking a brave truth teller because she sequentially burned both hands on the 7/11 hot dog roller" stuff
@BrandyLJensen "she died defending one of her core cultural values that no preening, moralizing blue check journo ensconced in their coastal cities could ever understand - eating a hot sausage po boy while driving"
Me answering the door for a delivery by wrapping whatever was on hand around me. https://t.co/BZjANLGvX6
lol you can tell some of the tweets, headlines, and takes were prescheduled for something closer than “wasserman asleep before Fallon” margins
Holy moley, do I have good news. The mighty @lisatozzi is joining @RollingStone as its digital director!!!! https://t.co/pCE76CcX6i
got a little kinky shopping for groceries yesterday (bought cocoa cheerios instead of my standard honey nuts)
Holy God, Holy and Mighty,
Holy and merciful Savior,
deliver us not into the bitterness of eternal death.
requiescat in pace https://t.co/B2zc2SBdE4
Tax the rich? Absolutely. But remember, taxes don't pay for spending. The key is to expand the productive capacity of the economy, so we can deliver a wider range of services -- education, housing, healthcare, green infrastructure and so forth -- in a manner that doesn't result i
i like to think about these parking lots — which are down the street from a brand new parking garage with public access — whenever someone says charlottesville is “too full” to build more housing.
our local NIMBYs produced a white paper and it is basically unreadable and also a great example of how they have nothing but contempt for the rest of the city https://t.co/fGucU5myKQ
One constant throughout War on Terror has been people declaring victory at every moment something clearly bad happened. Every major suicide bombing was a “sign of desperation by the enemy” or “birth pangs of a new Middle East” for twenty years. Losing Afghanistan now a victory. https://t.co/pdLqtfzUaA
Not just Milley but other figures like Dan Quayle are using the implosion of Trump's clown coup to rehabilitate their reputations. It's probably good to be a little skeptical. https://t.co/VoC4hZ0SHG
20 years after 9/11/2001 and lives altered forever. My extendes interview for @frontlinepbs which appeared in "America After 9/11".
@NewlinesInst
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@MazMHussain My apologies in advance for stealing that argument.
One thing to remember about U.S. officials engaging in these operations is that they are totally willing to kill innocent people and lie that they were terrorists. That is probably the vast majority of killing over the past twenty years: https://t.co/fgANshqYNE https://t.co/PNqDp7nUVK
God grant rest to the soul of Norm Macdonald. Not only a funny, but also a kind, noble, and courageous man, despite his vices.
A Taliban soldier beating an Afghan women on the streets of Kabul. This is the tip of the iceberg. https://t.co/o0ffzEgWwd
@Malabar_Bucolic @mehdirhasan she doesnt have a choice
RT @clary_co: Hello, General Li? https://t.co/0Wc472WxIT
@SeamusHughes ISIS is a bit different, based on an expansionary ideology. That said one constant in human nature is that no one likes a loser, or if they do they tend to attract bottom of the barrel vis a vis the talent pool.
@SeamusHughes The concept of attacking the far enemy as articulated by OBL back in day was based on premise of a zero-sum conflict with local regimes only winnable if their foreign supporters were attacked into withdrawing. If it turns out they can be won without that the reasoning collapses.
UAE really runs Washington. They've got 50% of the people there implementing their agenda in some manner. https://t.co/gA31kdUz6D
RT @zerohedge: NYT Confirms Biden Murdered Innocent Family In Kabul Drone Strike https://t.co/rttQ3VRJ3d
RT @Bing_Chris: BREAKING: 3 former U.S. intelligence operatives that worked as mercenary hackers for the UAE government face federal hackin…
@spawnofKahn @MartinSkold2 After 40 years the prime driver of conflict in Afghanistan seems to be revenge. Shared dynamic
@spawnofKahn I think they are going to struggle to provide effective governance, the only thing they've ever really provided in past is their rough brand of law and order. That said they have basic requirements for food and medicine (80% foreign funded) that are immediately unignorable.
@spawnofKahn The Taliban as presently constructed also came to power a bit way the Northern Alliance did in 2001: as a collection of groups united mainly by opposition to the central government, hence all the defections and corporations lately. Requires political management or it falls apart
@spawnofKahn Every rebel insurgent group that takes power Islamist or otherwise is concerned with their ability to govern whosoever they view as their own community. I would contrast their behavior with ISIS who specifically used the cameras being on to try and craft a negative image.
RT @formal__comms: How will surveilling military powers deter this inevitable humanity that jeopardizes total operational efficiency? How d…
I don’t think this is true; they’re extremely concerned with maintaining basic social services at present. Regarding the sentiment of not wanting to live in a warlord palace and thinking about the hereafter that’s not unique to the Taliban. https://t.co/oDrHc2q8jb
RT @MichaelStahlke: Hoo boy. I got a couple of hard “don’t fucking worry about it” responses when I’d write up that a village elder no long…
RT @GigWorkersRise: Tevin Edwards Kimbugwe is a Lyft driver who was stabbed in his face, chest, back and arms Sunday morning in Florida.
D…
RT @Mn105441: @FourFourths @GraduatedBen https://t.co/4dokZxMUcO
Important point. Self-celebrating liberal idea of diversity too often boils down to a bunch of people who look different but subscribe to the same set of narrow ideas and assumptions. https://t.co/0OO4eFD7l4
این رپر معروف ایرانیان امروز دستگیر شد. اهنگ های اش خیلی سیاسیسازی بود و به نظر می آید دولت ایران او را دوست نداشتند. این پست از چند روز پیش بود https://t.co/e43JAXqQRS
RT @nassimtaliban: This one hurts. RIP.
https://t.co/b8AYKAQ34J
RT @ihslimi: Vaccine certificate/card/passport is not a new thing. See below this one from 1908 issued by the Turkish Ottoman government. h…
RT @ZaidJilani: Mark Milley gives no such assurances to Afghan civilians
RT @John_Hudson: “Was he an aid worker or an ISIS-K operative,” asked @RandPaul
“I don’t know,” said @SecBlinken.
“You’d think you’d ki…
RT @mayjeong: In this weeks issue of @NYMag I write about sexual harassment and assault at the @UN: https://t.co/IwUJ79qkxf
RT @JonathanLanday: 9/11 parade float in Indiana featuring smoking twin towers sparks outrage https://t.co/Kdm1M44ssN
RT @BowenBBC: Warm welcome at Kabul airport https://t.co/OhopHGth67
RT @_restaurant_bot: Restoran Biser; Teritorijalne odbrane, Pokoj 77209, Bosnia and Herzegovina https://t.co/OzrYQmtGrd https://t.co/EbW1j2…
@yousuf_tw I’m old enough to remember hearing this every year since 2001
@PawlickL @inthesedeserts Oh yeah I remember that scalding water feel
RT @inthesedeserts: god lol this is the most any one image has spoken to me all year https://t.co/jIPQbeFTWm
@MazMHussain One of the problems with going to war on an abstract noun. It's never over, one way or another.
@inthesedeserts @MazMHussain My first job was a pot wash at a local pub. I lasted a month.
@MazMHussain Has he been named to the Ministry of Diplomacy or Public Relations yet
the cancel culture moral panic guys are just straight-up saying "cancelling is good when we do it" now https://t.co/dzRZEzcVpr
Gutted. Was supposed to be attending a wedding in Trinidad, but it’s just been cancelled. Family won’t say why.
Scrawling “TAX THE RICH” in Sharpie on the back of the $10 Costco mesh shorts from 2002 I wear to walk the dog before coffee
THE WHOLE SOLIDARITY SLATE GOT ELECTED OMFG!!!! https://t.co/mEpYK2CMRw
Scientists are eager to examine Tim's brain to see what makes it work so well https://t.co/0lszH2tAWL
@jscros First of all, not going to happen; second of all, he was born in Burbank and now lives in South Florida, the most liberal part of that state. Put your money where your mouth is Ben
@ndrew_lawrence Hate to say it but the beard is working for him
i am now badly craving the hot sausage po boy that was served in my high school cafeteria on tuesdays
Norm MacDonald on battles with cancer: “I’m pretty sure, I’m not a doctor, but I’m pretty sure if you die, the cancer dies at the same time. That’s not a loss. That’s a draw.”
Everyone says pop culture doesn’t actually matter but sideways destroyed the Merlot market
Give the victory speech while walking through the French Laundry kitchen a la Goodfellas https://t.co/2SMIBeNdnF
This got overshadowed yesterday but it was also gutting to learn about the death of the co-creator of one of, if not the funniest TV show of all time. RIP Ben Best.
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@RrjohnR I'm prompted to remember that book Beard wrote in 1934 about how Wilson was silly for being anti-monopoly (in this day and age!), the Republicans were disappointing for not regulating monopoly, but the NRA was juuuuuust right
Do a take about how there should be more money available for congressional staff so these positions can be better paid or the work spread more thinly, and I’ll be the first to applaud.
In this house we believe that political science is real https://t.co/lUUtu2rp8U
@Bernstein Still looking for examples of these assignments that were mandatory (not as one option among many). Zero and very few appear to be the two possibilities. Asked this guy and he didn’t respond.
Feels like an excuse for empty dudgeon at imaginary academics & easy-position taking.
@Bernstein I’m smart enough not to drop some “who are the other three” bomb.
To honor Norm's memory, Saturday Night Live should be canceled.
My reporting on Michelle Wu, who won the Boston mayoral primary and will head to the general election in November
https://t.co/33P6MwThOJ
@kath_krueger @mekosoff It's emotionally brutal even in non-plague times
ah, charlottesville, where we build a brand new empty parking lot next to an old empty parking lot https://t.co/ARHHO6qkCt
the last thing I saved to my photoroll before I heard I had been shortlisted for the booker https://t.co/AALbAHFVqU
@joshtpm a man who has shaped his entire political persona around showing "resolve" but who is fundamentally a little worm of a person
@MattZeitlin it’s “physiognomy” when it’s the face matt
if you dont like my writing you should know that i am also paid for it
Glenn Greenwald, Bossip author https://t.co/IThryluH6A
We need another hearing into why we're not spending $300 million a day occupying Afghanistan.
ok an update but i'm not abt to live tweet this. im in front of them. there is no shame. they loudly discussed whether either of them had had plane sex before (they had not). they are drunk
I'm not dreaming! Honored to be joining @nytimesbooks alongside these wonderful women, @magicmolly and @JenLouiseWilson https://t.co/IbwHdiWg93
The Federal Trade Commission's open meeting is starting in 10 minutes. Get ready for angry pro-monopoly Republican commissioners who will try to explain why their opposition to investigating monopolies shows Lina Khan is partisan or something.
https://t.co/pQnUcXDjsN
@zeynep Commandeering and building capacity and mandating production requires IP waivers. I wish people opposing IP waivers would be honest about the barriers instead of using straw men.
@zeynep No one claims that IP is the only barrier, that's just a straw man, but it is a key barrier. There are apparently 10 Indian companies producing the Sputnik vaccine. And mRNA vaccines, once you get it set up, are easier to produce because they are not biologics.
@Mauerback If you're concerned about jobs the most important thing to do is get the world vaccinated. If you're talking protecting U.S. interests, then we want other countries using our IP and paying royalties. What will happen instead is other countries will produce mRNA vaccines and win.
And here's @LucasKunceMO on why big tech threatens our national security. Tech monopolists are why we have a TikTok problem. https://t.co/i2fcCksX1o
@zeynep Seems like it's more than thoughts and prayers. https://t.co/HJp8pD1UB6
Disagree. The bottlenecks on production are artificial, and yes, IP is an important one. There's a reason Chinese and Russian vaccines are made everywhere and Western vaccines aren't. https://t.co/n1JHkk5Drt https://t.co/5fB2J2B5SZ
RT @hyoyoonkang: Respectfully disagree and would ask to follow compulsory licensing efforts and offers of production by S.Korea, Bangladesh…
Dan Coats works for the big tech group CCIA. This whole charade of 'natsec elites oppose antitrust on big tech' is embarrassing. These people know nothing, they are getting paid, and the fancy baubles on their shoulders are irrelevant. https://t.co/Z0BlHhYTBl
No it can't be natsec elites are corrupt.
"Frances Townsend, homeland security adviser to George W. Bush, and Admiral James Stavridis (ret.), former supreme allied commander at NATO, about their work for the [Facebook-backed] American Edge Project."
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RT @GhostPanther: No one told a joke joke better than Norm.
@herbgreenberg @Jkylebass @bpcostello Yes. Where’s that stat from?
@ddayen That’s assuming there are no Rs on board for only doing the bipartisan infrastructure bill.
RT @RepKenBuck: Shocking:
The national security officials are getting funding from Big Tech, to defend Big Tech.
Who would’ve guessed?
No it can’t be that ex-national security officials are anything but pure as the driven snow. They would never get funded by big tech and support big tech. https://t.co/HmmCQQ6YUU
The national security case for breaking up big tech is overwhelming. Here’s my argument. https://t.co/6k6Sa48MPo
A few ex-national security officials who probably tried but couldn’t get on Theranos’s board just wrote a letter against using antitrust on big tech firms. https://t.co/gduHZX5I9J
@grahamcclark1 @mike_bonatakis @vshih2 You assume too much, that’s not on their mind either way. The authors of the report literally have not read the trade agreements they recommend, because they don’t think about supply chains or production. Assume a can opener.
RT @jeffbercovici: Facebook researchers find Instagram makes teenage girls feel bad about their bodies & contemplate suicide.
Zuckerberg…
RT @mattyglesias: Worth recalling that you don’t need Woodward/Trump scoops of dubious provenance to know that the security elite is routin…
@mike_bonatakis @vshih2 Sure it’s unfair but that’s not my point here. The tpp has massive loopholes on rule of origin empowering China. None of these strategic thinkers pay attention to the details of trade. It should be embarrassing.
@BenRemaly Such blanket authorizations are routine on the consumer side.
These are just dumb gossip scandal mongering by minority commissioners which amount to complaining that ‘the FTC is finally doing its job’
@vshih2 I'm wondering if anyone who keeps recommending rejoining the TPP has read the TPP.
RT @Bitfinexed: Solana shutdown. So much for decentralized. https://t.co/lyYkFT9eYL
@timoth31lee Anyone could sound like a rotten person if you cite anonymous people who don’t like them.
@SarahTheHaider There's nothing in here that is even remotely worth reporting on.
There will always be pearl-clutching of anonymous bureaucrats when anyone actually tries to shake things up. That's all this is. https://t.co/9QmIzDXM4K
This article is irritating. A lot of Capitol Hill staff is mediocre and oriented around staid conventional wisdom. Jayapal fires incompetent people and has a high-performing office, which is why she gets a bunch of stuff done while others don't.
https://t.co/9QmIzDXM4K
RT @ggreenwald: The Masking of the Servant Class: Ugly COVID Images From the Met Gala Are Now Commonplace
https://t.co/3cyANKaU8D
@iwelsh Yes that's my view. My point is that you shouldn't criticize the U.S., you should criticize the West. It's an integrated military alliance and it's quite clear Western European elites are as bloodthirsty as anyone involved, as long as they don't have to pay for it.
RT @mattmerk: They say that those who do not know history are doomed to repeat it. Well, I have another book about just that as it pertains…
RT @mattyglesias: I really think I’m done with this genre of story — we’re not talking about abusive behavior here, just a member of congre…
@matthewstoller Being demanding is so yesterday. We need to kick back and live off of our crypto profits and influencer incomes.
When I worked at NYT, I had access to a plug-in that told me what percentage of readers dropped out of an article, and at what point they stopped reading, and my advice to most of you is that your articles are too long.
Thank you to all the @WGAEast members who voted. The whole Solidarity Slate won. Solidarity lives. All in together now.
Congrats to the Solidarity Slate https://t.co/93h6KP0gi2
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨Taco Bell ***subscription service*** being demo'ed
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i love to pretend to have brain damage on the internet so everyone can see what a clever thinker i am https://t.co/5zgmxDXq4A
great news I got a chair instead of a pew in the courtroom so you aren’t going to get as many tweets about how my back hurts
@Noahpinion @vincentkangnow @paulg Also, fusion may go online in four years. (It also may not. But it may.)
@Noahpinion @paulg Wow, almost like all these revolutionary technologies are going to...make climate change manageable....
Some news! After 7 years, I’m leaving @TheAtlantic to join @laurenwilliams and @KO_616 in building Capital B, a nonprofit news org focused on local journalism and Black communities. https://t.co/1hJWEszGfB
At this point COVID seems to be functioning as an excuse for colleges and universities to accelerate the pre-existing trend of morally righteous snitch culture and transform into full-fledged mutual surveillance regimes
All I did was talk to students and show up to speak (at their invitation) and within hours it compelled officials to reverse an extremely intrusive, irrational policy. I understand why this would make journos and Twitter activists so mad, as everything they do is totally useless https://t.co/msbpbITR7O
Less than 24 hours after my visit to Connecticut College, and after administrators went into DEFCON mode to prevent my entry, the benevolent Dean announces he talked to Fauci and the lockdown will be lifted immediately, after previously giving no indication this would happen 👍 https://t.co/h061880f7o
Dan Quayle is younger than Donald Trump or Joe Biden.
I’m volunteering at my daughters high school and they have given me special permission to screen this for her science class https://t.co/t1a5kejNnk
Newsom appeared to be on the ropes and then the GOP decides to rally around a dopey flame-throwing talk radio guy. Failed CA recall is a good metaphor for the systemic stupidity of the GOP
Receiving many more messages from college students across the country who are currently subject to bizarrely and capriciously intrusive "permanent emergency" conditions despite near-universal vaccination, which was supposed to enable a return to normalcy, but clearly has not
There is no intelligible justification for “contact tracing” at this point in the pandemic so it’s just flat-out creepy and imperious when officials use the data they’ve acquired from involuntary subjects to condemn their illicit decisions to socialize with 5 people or go to bars
Another obnoxious aspect of the new permanent surveillance regimes is that they're always justified in the sterilized, PR-tested administrative language of "safety" and "protecting our community" as though surveilling busybodies have a monopoly on caring for the welfare of others
@StevenJCBuckley Haha yes I was totally, devastatingly, humiliated by a Joe Mama joke. It's not like I joked right back with them and then continued to discuss the permanent surveillance and confinement regime that was imposed on their 99% vaccinated population. I spoke for two hours, dipshit
@StevenJCBuckley I have absolutely zero interest in "proving" anything to you, Dr. Steven Buckley, particularly as I assured every one of these students complete anonymity given the social repercussions they unanimously said they would face for speaking publicly
And no, I'm not exaggerating when I say "permanently surveilled." Colleges and universities are imposing surveillance regimes under the guise of "testing" and "contrat tracing" so they can monitor students' physical movements + social interactions, and punish them for violations
Erica sits around at CNN waiting for "law enforcement" sources to whisper important secrets to her, like how Bob Mueller was constipated this morning. I accept requests from students to go talk about how they're being permanently surveilled. So yes, we have different priorities https://t.co/lqhYe0KJhG
@Zazoooooooooo In traipsing around after security expelled me from the main campus, it turns out that my shirt became partially untucked. In hindsight I'm glad this happened because it shows how many people prefer to focus on my shirt, rather than the imposition of a 9/11 style permanent crisis
As someone who listened to "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea" approximately ten billion times I endorse this one 😂 https://t.co/Nv9mxevSsT
Shouldn't these institutions still imposing such intrusive restrictions on personal behavior, and demanding compliance with mandatory surveillance regimes, be decried as "anti-vaxxers" given that they're meddling with populations that have almost universal vaccination rates? https://t.co/TW17RWMv0E
GOP: Gets utterly destroyed and humiliated by a once-"tanking" Gavin Newsom in an off-year election that would historically favor the GOP after the national conservative media apparatus consolidates around a hot take libertarian talk radio pundit
GOP: It was never in our reach! https://t.co/m2sL5rjasP
LA County trended GOP in 2020 so don't try to argue that it would've been intrinsically impossible for a Republican to win an off-year state election in CA. This became less possible because a blinkered talk radio personality made the race a referendum on the national Culture War
Larry Elder "won" by getting millions of dollars in free media and dramatically expanding his media profile, thanks to the also systemically stupid conservative media boosting him for weird inverted Identity Politics reasons
@lmlas572 I agree! Print that out and give a copy to your mom
98% of students and faculty at Georgetown are vaccinated. Nonetheless it has been decreed that students may not remove their masks in class to ask questions or drink water. Further, the Dean of Georgetown Law encourages students to snitch on each other for committing violations https://t.co/Yd2R7qwaOE
In an industry full of the most insufferable dipshits, this guy really takes the cake. “You’re harmful to everyone around you.” LOL, shut up loser https://t.co/k3J4ZRT3vx
RT @ggreenwald: Sam Seder has been sad-sacking around various online and cable platforms for 15 years, spouting liberal platitudes and serv…
Damn, I don’t even really like comedy but I still liked Norm
Despite being denounced as a sinister “anti-vaxxer” I am personally vaccinated, as I’ve said a million times, so therefore not worried about it. But once again I’d like to thank Nurse Sam for the caring and kind health check
The student claimed to me that he received a positive result based on a test that was taken prior to my arrival. We did have an extended and fruitful outdoor conversation yesterday. I’m feeling fine though Sam, thank you so much for the sincere concern for my health and wellbeing https://t.co/wJfwuGVqyj
These administrators have invested so much time, energy, $$$, and professional cache over the past year and a half erecting their new surveillance regimes, along with the whole “crisis”-based system of thought they spring from. Real hard to just give up on such a major investment
@AndyBCampbell Here’s the thread with all the pertinent information, scumbag https://t.co/Ry9HG86ykn
Meanwhile let the media/podcast scumbags snark away while a new permanent surveillance apparatus is instated; they’ll eventually claim they opposed it, and then move on to snarking about the next thing
@RichardHanania I think it’s probably easier to influence flailing, paranoid administrators at small liberal arts colleges desperate to not have bad PR
I’ll take all the attacks in the world from failed media Twitter freaks -- the hatred of those scumbags fuels me -- if it means delivering for regular people who lack platforms, and who otherwise would have no influence. Every. Single. Time. https://t.co/msbpbITR7O
@SebastianMurdoc Your petty, resentful rage is a stimulant for me. I thank you
Yeah it’s true: most left-liberal HuffPost journos are utterly useless and would never be in a position where students would ask them to come speak on campus about an important issue, after which immediate results were achieved. Keep raging while your publication flounders, loser https://t.co/pgxXDD0h7x
There was a point when I was willingly to make reasonable allowances, personally and from a policy standpoint, to deal with an acute crisis. That has come and gone. The only reasonable course now is to confront the never-ending surveillance profiteers and busybodies
Just bear in mind that while the media cool kids snark and sneer at nonsense, some of the country's most influential institutions are *at this very moment* reneging on their prior claims that vaccine = normalcy, and adopting a "permanent crisis" model that could well last forever
One thing I observed yesterday is that there's a loudly vocal faction of students (and staff) whose conception of "safety" means total extirpation of any risk whatsoever of contracting a "case," however benign. Which would require intrusive measures to be imposed indefinitely
RT @nickj47: Working in higher ed, it’s always the fault of students or laborers.
The fault is never acknowledged as what it typically is…
These are almost universally vaccinated populations of young adults. Their risk of a severe outcome is infinitesimally small. And in any event, the "cases" that are currently being found aren't even cases of illness. They're all asymptomatic! Why should they still be surveilled? https://t.co/9BmpuiCcO9
Administrators imposing these new restrictions with no end in sight get the causation all wrong. They claim that students engaging in "irresponsible" social activity like (gasp) parties are the cause of their situation. No, the actual "cause" is your superfluous testing regime
Why are populations such as the Brown University student body, which has already undergone mandatory vaccination, still being subjected to nonstop twice-weekly “surveillance testing”? Why do they need to be “surveilled” anymore in the first place? https://t.co/IiQxXVXed1
The students who invited me (and more) have all thanked me profusely for coming, and stated that they think the situation at the campus will be improved as a result, so I’m much more interested in that feedback than whatever the loser media/activist Twitter hivemind thinks 👍
If loser Twitter journos think it’s “cringe” to go speak at a college campus at the invitation of students, in order to bring attention to an extremely important civil liberties issue, and then to engage with everyone in attendance regardless of opinion, I’m glad to be “cringe”
Journo freaks would never seek context before opining on things, but I’m on this sidewalk because students *urged and guided me there* after security ordered me off the main campus. And the guy “heckling” talked to me for like an hour and we later exchanged phone numbers 👍 https://t.co/OGNHG0S1Pn
@mtracey I was thinking there’s no way I could get through presenting my 2-hour class lectures (at another school) without unmasking and drinking
Then I realized Georgetown’s policy doesn’t apply to faculty lecturers, if they maintain 6’ distance. Another “you mask and I don’t” situation
Vaccination does not help protect education.
Stopping asymptomatic testing will. https://t.co/CxeBcq9Fj2
I've said it before, but having the military (rather than, say, Congress) be the safeguard against an autocratic president is proof of a failed system.
In a timeline that diverged from this one sometime around 2007, I'm single, work in construction management somewhere in exurban eastern Washington, and drive exactly this car https://t.co/4CA3CC03Ig
It’s just a straightforward assessment of how Republican majorities in the Senate now respond to Supreme Court vacancies under Democratic presidents. I have no idea what Biden’s chances are in 2024. https://t.co/hqHKuMrpyj
Sending the people at the met gala to gitmo would poll at 63%
And just like that, we’re back 🎉 Send tips to me and my tiny producer! https://t.co/5Vi1vLDg7H
Lol I’m like the only one not offended by AOC’s Met Gala look. Maybe it’s cuz I called it years ago. And maybe the Met Gala was once exclusive and opulent, but is now just a low-production-value social media event for one-hit influencers who lack the grandeur to be called celebs? https://t.co/ENPaHBjR2J
very cowardly attacks from maya.... https://t.co/iUmylFxvP2
NEW: @SenTuberville is introducing legislation that would require future CDC directors be confirmed by the Senate
@DougHenwood @bigblackjacobin Nothing is too good for the working class.
@DougHenwood @bigblackjacobin There's an honorable tradition of this on the left, including Alex Cockburn.
y’all be scared to double text lmaoo not me ding ding tis i again
this week @KathleenRice "joined with two other centrists to temporarily block an enormously popular drug pricing reform measure from advancing through the Energy and Commerce Committee"
https://t.co/xWXfCHdS2Z
https://t.co/aEzJaHsIzz
Pre-Minaj, the anti-vax/pro-mask quadrant didn’t get a lot of play in the Discourse but it’s reasonably common on the ground here in DC and seems to me to be actually driving some of the city government’s policies.
@janecoaston @BenjySarlin @lachlan …for property rights fetishists, this is intolerable. a gold standard would essentially remove the question of currency value (and to an extent economic growth) out of the hands of democratically accountable officials and put it into the hands of “the market,” seen as objective
@dietary___fat @janecoaston @jbouie @lachlan There’s a grand tradition in the US of just hating paper money and central banks, goes back all the way to the founders. I think a lot of it at this point is just working backwards from that instinct.
i often feel that, in actual practice, my most radical policy position is “cities should be for people first and cars last”
the fun thing of course is that as far as i can tell there is no amount of parking you can build that will satisfy calls for more parking.
@bigblackjacobin i'd probably try to get a picture with rihanna but you do you
I wrote about 20 years of Jake Tapper's "how will you pay for it" schtick and how it only targets social welfare programs that benefit the poor and vulnerable and never the wars Tapper clearly thinks are righteous and should continue.
https://t.co/jizu08hgZB
@wesyang I actually have the answer to this https://t.co/dah7xfxb9L https://t.co/pqjffiCJsv
This thread is remarkable - in part because typically black and brown journalists are the ones forced to speak up here. Can't imagine statistics at any of the major journalistic institutions would look much better... https://t.co/tm2NxT6L4M
california recall is a classic democrat election in that it was a lot of people freaking out and working very hard to make sure things stay as shitty as they are instead of getting catastrophically shitty
wait now i can say im an award winning author and thats true. wild
@newrepublic Time's Up was more of a networking club for women with top-tier rolodexes than a vehicle for systemic change
https://t.co/KGmMiMhUid https://t.co/QrQd1yuupP
This article is...pretty light on specifics
https://t.co/QvDX2kiktl
me: [coloring side by side with my 5 y/o]
5 y/o: [bummed] yours is better.
me: it's not a contest. i'm your mom. i'm never competing with you.
5 y/o: why?
me: well, because you're always a winner to me.
5 y/o: you're always a loser to me.
defining attribute of sinema really seems to be that she is completely high on her own supply https://t.co/V3tsDcOLYB
If someone had asked me whether I would live to see someone do buckle up voice about *Jesus* I would have said no https://t.co/fDCY1px4QU
We talk about Freedom Fries, but we often forget that there was also Freedom Toast. Thank you for the reminder @attackerman.
@DavidKlion @AthertonKD It me, the spreadsheet interpreter
@AthertonKD Grateful to @pearkes for making those figures legible to me!
The whole piece is worth reading, but honestly the first paragraph stands alone as the grand arc of the present material conditions, the haunting firmament against which Schwartz' portraits of the lives of the wealthy land (or fail to do so) https://t.co/xFwyKc7iB0
"In 1976, the year Josh Schwartz was born in Providence, one tenth of one percent of American households controlled 7.5 percent of the nation’s wealth....this year, as a rebooted Gossip Girl debuts, it most likely exceeds 20 percent" https://t.co/xFwyKc7iB0
Oh fuck. I was a huge fan of Norm Macdonald and I essentially ripped off his delivery when I first started acting. I would stay up specifically to watch him on talk shows. He was the funniest guest of all time. We lost a comedy giant today. One of the the all time greats. RIP.
@lionel_trolling There is so much denial on this -- particularly from people who have locked themselves into some version (left or right) of anti-anti-Trumpism.
@AsteadWesley Can’t wait for you to write their vows column
he* understood the assignment
*jonathan franzen in strong motion where he thanks william cronon in the acknowledgements and draws upon "changes in the land: indians, colonists and the ecology of new england" in a discussion of the boston area's environmental history
@ashleyfeinberg Conor's entire political philosophy is grounded in not understanding actual human behavior https://t.co/bHex1Gtszq
Can't just attribute all insights to Shor, this is @b_schaffner! https://t.co/UUVGM50LhM
BREAKING: Norm MacDonald has died "after a long and private battle with cancer"
The influential comedian and former 'SNL' Weekend Update anchor was 61 https://t.co/wSbwGQ8Syp
This is closer to the mark than the simple "Milley saved us from Trump" narrative. https://t.co/Z9jZbM3Ytr
The Norm Macdonald "moth Joke," one of the greatest jokes every told on television. https://t.co/daC9oPVPsU
actual thing our electrician just said: you have a raccoon nested in your attic. did you guys eat king snow crabs, because he has a bunch of them up there.
(we did not have any snow crabs)
Core CPI comes in cooler than expected.
Just up 0.1% MOM vs. 0.3% expected.
Up 4.0% YOY vs. 4.2% expected.
@micahuetricht I see now this SJW stuff is truly a scourge. i can't lift my arms above my head.
@mags_mclaugh Just trying to contribute to the discourse in a positive manner!
Gotta say House moderates' original theory that anti-police sentiment hurt the party in 2020 was a lot more plausible than their current theory that Democrats should drop their extremely popular drug pricing ideas.
There are still people on this website who spend their days incessantly tweeting their insistence that Bernie Sanders is a horrible person because one time they didn't like a tweet from @BrieBrieJoy.
To these people I say: Seek help. Immediately.
@LPDonovan @jonathanchait *david shor voice* democratic donors are to the left on economics and social issues from democratic voters
I think this is a very important point. If we no longer agree that state popular votes ultimately govern the allocation of electoral votes, then it's only a matter of time before they simply don't. https://t.co/hSJEhIVyJE
Norm Macdonald is the reason I'm a writer. There's not a second reason. I studied him growing up. He got me my first job. I'm crushed. Rest in peace to the best comedian on earth.
there is no coherent justification for the electoral college as it exists, but even if you think there is, it seems like you might want to reform a system that is leading inexorably to a disaster.
@RaxKingIsDead it would kind of adjacent to gyro fries i guess. which are great. thesis proven
Like most years, Apple's product reveal at times felt like one big, long ad. https://t.co/emIrbiOoBC
making a list of the 10 celebrities i think are most likely to be anti-vax and rivers cuomo takes up 4 different spots
love the idea of having some notes on Jesus https://t.co/laswmMslmC
i'm brave enough to dress like shit every day and not just for the met gala
excited for the new wgae council to outlaw baroque swear words
so it seems like there was a lowkey coup after jan 6? milley pruning trump's powers, twitter and facebook denying his ability to broadcast...now maybe it was a low key *counter-coup* and similar stuff (at least with the military) happend with nixon, but still, quite something
@janecoaston @BenjySarlin @lachlan it does! going back on the gold standard would reduce the supply of dollars, putting a constraint on economic growth. it also puts deflationary pressure on the economy, benefitting creditors but harming debtors.
If the fabulously wealthy must exist, I prefer they spend all their money commissioning artists to make them giant Fabragé carapaces which they will swan about in during museum charity balls, rather than making vanity nonprofits
We are thrilled and delighted to announced that @magicmolly, @AlexandraJacobs and @JenLouiseWilson will all be taking on new roles at @nytimesbooks. Please join us in welcoming these brilliant minds -- and all the book smarts they'll bring -- to our pages. https://t.co/mqkHeMUz2X
I am absolutely devastated about Norm Macdonald. Norm had the most unique comedic voice I have ever encountered and he was so relentlessly and uncompromisingly funny. I will never laugh that hard again. I'm so sad for all of us today.
Tell me you haven't read the Bible without telling me you haven't read the Bible. https://t.co/LxbBAcYOd4
All that yes, we all go for that stuff, but it's also pretty cool to drink beer with your friends and read books. https://t.co/B2zuxVdi4m
gavin has to go back to the french laundry to celebrate his win
Behavior that strikes you as an extraordinary departure from a norm is often simply adhesion to a norm you weren't aware of.
Bingo. I'd add: people who love the word "cringe" show they have an aesthetic worldview more than a political one (or rather, their politics is largely aesthetic). https://t.co/JIfo3l6t5H
i have a shrink appointment in 12 minutes and i feel like my current exuberance is really gonna throw her off
I just want the final disclosure docs to see how much Parscale got paid.
Norm Macdonald: “It’s the greatest gig in the world, being alive. You get to eat at Denny’s, wear a hat, whatever you wanna do.”
why is everyone talking about AOC’s dress when they should be talking about how today is my birthday. none of you will see the kingdom of heaven!
Reposting all our #CaliforniaRecall content today.
Learn everything you need to know about Larry Elder and why California's were mad enough at Newsom to try to recall him with @joshuarolson, @daveanthony & @bigblackjacobin.
https://t.co/dKOjcT12KE
Lots of great Norm Macdonald clips but this one is especially good because Larry King is such a perfect, um, straight man. https://t.co/DrsFxc1nrI
tired of the remote work articles about how there has to be some kind of tradeoff in salary, hours, or expectations for remote work. things simply cannot get better, the managerial class demands that every improvement has to come with a totally invented and arbitrary drawback https://t.co/Nwtl2tJ5xT
AOC didn't pay $35,000 to attend the Met gala because she knows that place only has a suggested donation for admissions and you can pay a dollar if you want https://t.co/YtA2rOdzG3
2. Applebaum's argument, found in her recent book Twilight of Democracy & excerpted in the Atlantic, is a perfect distillation of the elite centrist worldview: that all anti-systems politics is just sour grapes, that Bernie=Trump, that meritocracy is real, etc.
The Globe and Mail just published a column saying these guys should get seats in Parliament. https://t.co/EKyHXrxR8O
@lionel_trolling Trump's clownishness is also a factor. Buffonery and incompetence lets people discount him. It's a subtle gift for a would be autocrat.
I'd be a little more skeptical than some people are about news reports based on anonymous Republican bigwigs and anonymous generals showing how Republican bigwigs and generals saved the country from Trump.
RT @jacremes: We are one senator away from having the government impose a rule that 75% of university instructional staff be tenure track.…
One of the all time great headlines. https://t.co/Fs1lxoE36Q
@RobertaLipp @jonlovett You can see the wheels turning inside his brain.
@ProducerMcD The timing is like an Abbott and Costello routine -- just every word in place.
ICYMI: @bellye66 and I talk about the ties between the right in America & Eastern Europe, with examples from careers of Pat Buchanan & Anne Applebaum. https://t.co/LlVtinKKFG
@PopulismUpdates Pilot for private jet owned by a big Hollywood star.
Far-right groups in this case includes The Globe and Mail. https://t.co/3nowCC9Rcv
@rhondastew @molavi_n that's assuming people would vote the same way in p.r. as they do in first past the post. Not sure that's valid.
Globe: These people have legitimate concerns about non-white immigrants and deserve seats in Parliament.
Globe correction: Sorry, actually these people are super racists and deserve seats in Parliament.
An improvement? https://t.co/F3xAObb26C
RT @GrimKim: WE WON!!! I’m overwhelmed with gratitude, and am excited to work with our new comrades on council to keep moving this union fo…
@DamonLinker I didn't mean as a general rule but as the dynamic at work here.
There's a dress you can buy that sums this up more succinctly https://t.co/UNLFYLolag
@DamonLinker Two sides of the same coin, as far as I'm concerned.
RT @michael_deforge: Paul Schrader make Cat People 2 with Tiffany Haddish you coward https://t.co/2VRFzejLQy
@MKupperman Remember when Bob Dole made a gaffe about the Brooklyn Dodgers that showed how old he was while running for president? That was a quarter of a century ago.
RT @bellye66: Huge fun chatting about the knock on effects of the great Eastern European thaw of the 1990s with @heerjeet on his podcast. J…
Only a few days left in the election but the Liberals would be well advised to spread this far and wide. "Gunnie Girl" is not something that plays well in mainstream Canada. https://t.co/7VVrjLRzxi
@yeselson @beyerstein Right, that's part of my point. Effectively there are no remedies for a mad/autocratic president (although theoretical remedies exist in the constitution). That's very bad and dangerous.
@JamesFallows Well, yeah, better someone. But the whole thing speaks to a very large crisis in democracy.
This is not good. It's not the job of military men to serve as a restraint on a dangerous, lawless president. That's the job of congress. https://t.co/JKzwxmRSHY